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From: Paul Attwood <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 19 January 1998 21:06
Subject: Re: Flat Earthers
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>From: Joe Gallagher
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>>People once had a irrational fear of falling off the end of earth.
>>People have become more sophisticated (arguable) but only the fears have
>>changed. I got 10 calls this weekend worried specifically about
>>Meningococcal Meningitis. Some are pressing flesh with glass slides and
>>performing 24hr vigils on children. There is no outbreak in this area.
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>Four cases in this area in last month (pop 130,000) one died and the OOH
>demand is going a bit silly. Not during office hours in my practice though,
>odd that? Is it me or the dark? ;-)
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>>Although the media are doing a good job of heightening awareness of this
>>pernicious condition I fear they are making a less ideal job of keeping
>>the condition in perspective. But then that doesn't make good copy.
>>One health correspondent in one of our broadsheets stated. " Meningitis
>>is carried at the back of the throat of a lot of people"
>>I have seen one case of bacterial meningitis in 10 years. Is this
>>unusually small number of cases?
I have had tow cases in nearly ten years of GP. Neither had a purpuric rash
and one even had a "normal" morbilliform rash which would not have passed
the Hilarious Jones glass test. There but for the grace of God......
Douglas Soutter.
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