Re: H1N5 (and Bakker's virus extinction hypothesis) now H5N1

[Adrienne Mayor <afmayor@aol.com>]

sorry--I oversimplified: the cuneiform tablets about containing  
epidemics that I described were found in Mari, a trading outpost of  
Sumer's Mesopotamian kingdom. Sumer proper is in what is now Iraq,  
but Mari is in modern Syria.

On May 14, 2006, at 3:37 PM, David Marjanovic wrote:


> Sumer (now Syria)

Ouch! No, Iraq, upstream from Basra. But I'm not sure if you don't  
mean Sumer anyway.

Interesting information, however!