“This represents an urgently required step forward for forensic medical research.”
Richard Shepherd, the forensic pathologist who will lead a team filming the decomposition of a human corpse for television (The Guardian, London, 4 November)
“That was a risk factor for avian flu that we hadn’t considered.”
Epidemiologist Tim Uyeki of the US Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, after a man became infected by sucking a rooster’s beak and swallowing the spit and mucus – a technique for clearing the bird’s airway apparently common in cockfighting circles (The New York Times Sunday magazine, 7 November)
“They see all these websites as newspapers they haven’t been able…
