GLOBALIZATION MAKES SPREAD OF DISEASES MUCH EASIER As technological and transportation advances make the world seem smaller, a growing number of food-borne illnesses, such as mad-cow disease, are speeding along on what one scientist calls the "viral superhighway." At one time, food-borne disease was limited to a region, but now emerging diseases are accelerating quickly. Seattle Times, February 2, 2001 For full text, go to: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/SeattleTimes.woa/wa/gotoArticle?zsection_id=268466359&text_only=0&slug=madcow02&document_id=134264568 [don't you just hate those long URLs that you have to paste into your browser?]
