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To: _Jim
About 5% to 30% of people who have Legionnaires' disease die.

What's up with that? Why wouldn't they have exact numbers?

19 posted on 04/14/2003 7:00:14 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone
Why wouldn't they have exact numbers?

A. Statistical variances owing to 'catching it in time'
B. It varies from year to year - and whether it was a 'group' diagnoses or sporadic cases (see A. above) ...

22 posted on 04/14/2003 7:06:37 PM PDT by _Jim ( // NASA has a better safety record than NASCAR \\)
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