"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Yes it is.

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nation...Crocodile.html

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 · Last updated 5:51 p.m. PT

Medical school professor killed by croc

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEATTLE -- A University of Washington medical professor who moved to
Botswana to alleviate a doctor shortage was killed when a crocodile
dragged him from a canoe, his family and colleagues said.

Dr. Richard K. Root, 68, was on a wildlife tour Sunday of the Limpopo
River after visiting a clinic in the area.

He was in a lead canoe with tour guides when the crocodile thrust from the
water, grabbed him and pulled him under, said Steve Gluckman, medical
director of the Botswana program. He was not seen again.

The tour guides were wary of hippos, but there had been no reports of
crocodile attacks in the area, Gluckman said.

Root was a nationally known expert in infectious disease and the former
chief of medicine at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center.

He had moved to the southern African nation only this month to train
health care workers to deal with AIDS.





P.S. Snappy headline, eh? :}

Canoeing in crocodile infested waters? What kind of a doctor is he? a
chiropractor?