Re: Crohns Increasing Prevalence

Fran wrote:
[SNIP]
> Obviously they must be, because the majority of posters here are in 
> America or Canada.  I blame American TV programmes myself - we had 
> none of these transatlantic illnesses before we in the UK started 
> im****ting US sitcoms.  There's a programme - so I'm told, I don't 
> have a television - called 'The Simpsons', wherein the 
> characters have yellow skin, and which is watched by, among others, 
> pregnant women.  Is it just coincidence that babies are born with 
> jaundice?  I think not.  I rest my case.

But what about my nuncle who was diagnosed with Terminal Illeitis" back 
in the 1940s, before televisoin had made it to Oz?  Could he have 
developed it from the wireless??

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)

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