1. Reference is made to the childhood story known variously as Chicken Little or Henny Penny in which a chicken in the barnyard, having been hit in the head by something that fell from above (e.g., a nut from a tree) exaggeratedly believes a great calamity is about to befall the farm and exclaims that the sky is falling, the sky is falling, a reaction that we would now characterize as being that of a drama queen.
2. Out of the crisis;Deming,1982
3. The vacuolating virus, S.V. 40;Sweet;Proc Soc Exp Biol Med,1960
4. Bacteriophage contamination in live poliovirus vaccine;Milch;J Biol Stand,1975
5. What went wrong in BSE? From prion disease to public disaster;Baker;Brain Res Bull,1996