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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Bug zappers
Message-ID: <11905@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 88 17:40:05 GMT
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In article <3408@sfsup.UUCP> erl@sfsup.UUCP (E.Lund) writes:
>Actually, bats are infrequent carriers of rabies. ... A rabid bat,
>furthermore, is fairly easy to spot, since it does not behave in
>anything like batlike fashion.

I think I know what you mean, and that means that you know that
bats are *not* `carriers of rabies':

% webster carrier
car.ri.er \'kar-e--*r\ n ...  5: one that harbors and disseminates the
   causative agent of disease infectious to its kind to which it is immune

The last five words are very important.  A disease carrier is immune
to the effects of the disease.

(Now I am wondering whether Steve Elias will accuse me of semantic
mongery again....)
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