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News ' cover story calls the virus the "next epidemic."
They tend to share the common language of doctors everywhere and so can make the unfamiliar reassuringly accessible, while still conveying a revealing sense of their national Zeitgeist . I recently picked up the Annals of Saudi Medicine , for example, and discovered, to my surprise, the telling obsessions of a modernized country: ulcers, a growing epidemic of obesity, smoking, heart disease, child abuse.
This failing appears to be epidemic throughout the industry: I recently spoke with an executive of Okidata, a manufacturer of a very good computer (laser) printer, who told me that his technical staff answers 60,000 telephone queries a month.
He worked heroically when a cholera epidemic struck the area of his country home.
The alarming lead story in Sunday's Observer claimed that Britain's BSE (mad cow disease) epidemic "may have been caused by a scientific experiment that went wrong.