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Old Sep 9th, 2003, 02:51 AM
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FYI: Medical tourist scam on the Greek island of Corfu

Found this article on the BBC website today:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3092356.stm

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Old Sep 9th, 2003, 10:06 AM
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Anyone have personal experience with this?
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No, but knowing the type of visitor that frequents Kavos, where these incidents took place, I shouldn't think that a few antibiotics would go amiss ;-)
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WhoAmI: hahahahaha

I don't know anyone who has been scammed, but articles similar to this show up in the Norwegian rags from time to time. It's sad that "everyone" knows it goes on and nobody wants to do anything about it.
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I'm not sure what to make of the comment about "the type of visitor that frequents Kavos" and I assume it is a typical passive-aggressive remark, but it is always unfortunate when people are conned.
 
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Intrepid - I'm not sure what exactly you meant by a typical passive-aggressive remark, but Kavos, in common with Faliraki on Rhodes, is infamous throughout Europe for attracting (mainly British) late teens and early twenties visitors who want nothing more from their holiday than to get as drunk as possible, as cheaply as possible and notch up as many sexual partners as possible. Sad, but true.
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