[WriteOn]

'white terror': isn't that the chinese nickname for caucasians?

[Mother Abigail]

WHO hoped further tests over the next couple of weeks would determine whether one was the culprit, whether it was a combination of both or if their presence was just a coincidence.

And an effective treatment is still lacking. Although some hospitals had been using the antiviral drug Ribavirin, Salter said that WHO felt clinical testing should be carried out to discover whether it really was the answer.

"We have no significant information yet to show that it is effective," he said.

[Cicero]

It's obviously too late to contain this disease. And it's pretty late to start identifying it and developing a vaccine. China has a lot to answer for.

Then again, China has been brewing new flu strains for a century or more, and nobody has tried to do anything to correct the situation.

[Snowy]

I think it's time to give "The Stand" another read.

[Thud]

ping

[GOPJ]

Is this an antibiotic resistant pneumonia spliced on to a common cold virus?

[GOPJ]

Is this an antibiotic resistant pneumonia spliced to a common cold virus?

[rmmcdaniell]

Guangdong officials point to news reports that said 24 people had died and 680 had been infected in that city by the end of February. SARS is poorly understood and scientists have yet to nail down its cause.

24 / 680 = 3.5%

6,000,000,000 worldwide population * 3.5% = 210,000,000 deaths worldwide assuming the mortality rate is correct and remains constant.

[Saundra Duffy]

Yikes!

[WFTR]

I haven't dreamed about you, so it can't be too bad.

WFTR
Bill