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#24161 03/22/2001 3:24 PM

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A friend of mine brought up an excellent point today about the news media's refusal
to call the foot-and-mouth outbreak an "epizootic," preferring instead to misuse "epidemic?"

thoughts? is this only an US'n reporting error?

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Epidemic? Anonymous 03/22/2001 3:24 PM

Re: Epidemic? Hyla 03/22/2001 5:58 PM

Re: Epidemic? Faldage 03/22/2001 6:47 PM

Re: Epidemic? Hyla 03/22/2001 7:01 PM

Re: Epidemic? Anonymous 03/22/2001 7:08 PM

Re: Epidemic? Hyla 03/22/2001 7:28 PM

Re: Epidemic? wwh 03/22/2001 8:45 PM

Re: Epidemic? Anonymous 03/22/2001 8:56 PM

Uncle Wiggly wwh 03/22/2001 9:14 PM

Re: Uncle Wiggly of troy 03/22/2001 9:25 PM

Re: Uncle Wiggly tsuwm 03/22/2001 9:31 PM

Re: Uncle Wiggly wwh 03/22/2001 9:51 PM

Foot to hoof BlanchePatch 03/23/2001 3:39 AM

Re: Foot to hoof tsuwm 03/23/2001 4:31 AM

Re: Foot to hoof Capital Kiwi 03/23/2001 9:26 AM

Re: Foot to hoof tsuwm 03/23/2001 10:23 PM

Re: Foot to hoof Jazzoctopus 03/23/2001 9:56 PM

Re: Foot to hoof Max Quordlepleen 03/23/2001 10:22 PM

Re: Foot to hoof Anonymous 03/23/2001 10:30 PM

Re: Foot to hoof BlanchePatch 03/25/2001 1:42 PM

Re: Foot to hoof belMarduk 03/26/2001 2:27 PM

Re: Foot to hoof wwh 03/26/2001 4:15 PM

Re: Foot to hoof rkay 03/26/2001 5:45 PM

Re:epizootic wwh 03/23/2001 10:32 PM

Re:epizootic Max Quordlepleen 03/23/2001 10:45 PM

Re:epizootic wwh 03/24/2001 12:34 AM

Re:epizootic Max Quordlepleen 03/24/2001 1:21 AM

Re:epizootic: an interrogatory speculation inselpeter 03/24/2001 6:02 AM

Re:epizootic: an interrogatory speculation Max Quordlepleen 03/24/2001 7:47 AM

re sense shifts tsuwm 03/24/2001 2:59 PM

Re: re sense shifts inselpeter 03/24/2001 3:41 PM

Re: re sense shifts tsuwm 03/24/2001 3:49 PM

Re: re sense shifts inselpeter 03/24/2001 4:21 PM

Re: re sense shifts tsuwm 03/24/2001 4:50 PM

Re: re sense shifts wwh 03/24/2001 5:00 PM

Re: re sense shifts inselpeter 03/24/2001 5:08 PM

Re: re sense shifts tsuwm 03/24/2001 5:21 PM

Re: re sense shifts inselpeter 03/24/2001 5:38 PM

Long response, caution if modem slow inselpeter 03/30/2001 2:53 PM

Re: re sense shifts Max Quordlepleen 03/24/2001 10:54 PM

Re:epizootic inselpeter 03/24/2001 4:28 AM

Re:epizootic musick 03/24/2001 3:26 PM

Re:epizootic Faldage 03/26/2001 4:40 PM

Re:epizootic of troy 03/26/2001 4:54 PM

Re:epizootic Faldage 03/26/2001 5:01 PM

Re:epizootic of troy 03/26/2001 5:29 PM

Re: Epidemic? Max Quordlepleen 03/22/2001 7:01 PM

Re: Epidemic/epizootic et.al. wow 03/22/2001 10:17 PM

Re: Epidemic/epizootic et.al. Hyla 03/22/2001 11:18 PM

Re: Epidemic/epizootic et.al. wwh 03/22/2001 11:28 PM

Re: Epidemic/epizootic et.al. tsuwm 03/23/2001 12:42 AM

Re: Epidemic? wwh 07/23/2001 2:43 PM

autopsy, epidemic Alex Williams 07/23/2001 4:39 PM

Re: autopsy, epidemic wwh 07/23/2001 5:16 PM

Re: autopsy, epidemic Bingley 07/24/2001 4:38 AM

Re: autopsy, epidemic wwh 07/24/2001 1:16 PM

Re: autopsy, epidemic WhitmanO'Neill 07/25/2001 3:29 AM

Re: autopsy, epidemic of troy 07/25/2001 12:05 AM

Re: autopsy, epidemic belMarduk 07/25/2001 3:36 PM

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