On 26 Mar 2004 12:31:17 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:


In article ,
martin writes:
| On 26 Mar 2004 11:59:22 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
|
| The fact that they are a serious health risk in the tropics is
| not necessarily evidence that they are in the UK.
|
| The H&SE think they are. Restaurants with resident cockroaches are
| closed down.

Bureaucracy and science have little in common.

Academia also by the look of it.


| Mosquitoes are
| there and not here.
|
| and unless you live near a major international airport.

Even then, only for some ridiculous meaning of the word "serious".

Catching malaria is serious for the person involved, but not you
sitting on your bum in a college somewhere :-)