I think its kind of inappropriate but not really. In a part the mom explains to our main character how babies are made but overall its pretty kid friendly.
2000 might be when the disease peaked. It mentions in the passage that the government started to ban farmers from feeding their livestock high risk meat, and that the disease peaked shortly after that. Since 2000 is 'shortly after' 1997, the source from 2000 might be from the peak.
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what paper do you speak of?
