[yonif]

I am glad I am not in China right now (I lived in Beijing between 1999-2001.)

[Dog Gone]

I don't think the US has hit the panic button. I'd be curious to find out how much the public has even heard about this. My guess is that it's in the 10% range.

[Future Snake Eater]

Is this supposed to be a naturally occurring disease? It almost sounds as if it's been engineered.

[Cicero]

Panic button, hell. They've been playing this down. And frankly, it's already too late to keep it out of the United States.

[commish]

The Ladies World Hockey Championships was just Cancelled because of SARS too.

[aristeides]

This thing can do a lot of damage if it takes hold in India.

[DouglasKC]

Some 80 to 90 per cent of infected people recover on their own, but there has been a 4 per cent casualty rate so far.

Let's see...what is there about 270 million people in the United States? If everyone gets it's that would be nearly 11 million dead?

If only half (135 million) get it, that means over 5 million dead?

[Jim Noble]

>>US and Canadian authorities have said they will now detain and screen people coming from the China and South East Asian countries who show any sign of sickness or symptoms of the disease.<<

And they're giving out dandy little cards.

This is not "hitting the panic button".

Obviously we want to refuse entry to people who are sick with SARS arriving from Asia. But the key is refusing entry to those who are in the ten day incubation period but who aren't sick yet.

If we do this tomorrow, then we can arrest SARS outside of the country, in Asia and Canada.

If we don't, the vast majority of SARS-infected people (who aren't sick yet) will be free to travel here, as any sensible exposed person would most certainly do.

The international airports of China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada and Vietnam should be closed immediately. In the event that this does not occur, US airports should not allow flights from those areas to land in the US. Any persons arriving from those areas must be quarantined for ten days prior to being released to travel in the US.

[Revel]

condidering that it takes as long as 10 days for symptoms to appear then this is almost worthless. All travel to and from any country with an outbreak of this disease should be imediately prohibited. Saddly people are more worried about the economic problems this may bring. It will have to become like the plague before such measures will be enacted. This is the price you pay for World Globalism.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

US hits panic button on mystery virus

This is further proof that not enough people read the Bible ! Its amazing to me that such a guide for life and death can be ignored as much as it is .

[spyone]

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[1st-P-In-The-Pod]

FYI I talked to some Chinese grad students today and they all had the same explanation for the SARS epidemic. The area of China the SARS started in is extremely poor. That means the gutters run with sewage, etc. Many diseases just hang out there generation after generation and mutate to stronger strains. This has been a source of red-face to the Chinese gov't, so they keep it quiet as much as they can. The citizens of the area think nothing of it, and just do the best they can. For what it's worth. Gotta go now.

[honway]

http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/1/29/155648

The irony is that since 1993 I haven’t had to adduce my arguments to prove that there is an offensive bioweapons program in China: The program has figured in a United States government document, available to the public

[aruanan]

The US-based Center of Disease Control said its officials are meeting planes, cargo ships and cruise ships coming either directly or indirectly to the United States from China, Singapore and Vietnam and distributing health alert cards to disembarking passengers.

And what about all those ships transporting illegal Chinese immigrants?

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

The public urgently needs to know what the AMERICAN health authorities are doing — if anything at all — to ensure that this disease does not strike and spread in this country. "Asking" people to quarantine themselves and not telling us in which cities the suspected cases are located, because "it would be unfair" to the sick person is in my mind beyond unacceptable. And that is what is happening in at least one state that I know of.

[honway]

http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsmyst273193673mar27,0,1511859.story?coll=ny%2Dhealth%2Dheadlines


After weeks of prodding, Chinese health officials yesterday admitted to the World Health Organization that at least 792 people in that country have contracted SARS since November, and 34 have died. This more than doubled the previously acknowledged number of Chinese cases, bringing the global total to 1,323 cases, 52 of them fatal.

Chinese officials said yesterday that the first known case surfaced Nov. 16 in Foshan City, a modern boomtown that is home to 3.3 million people and a key tourist center. In 2002, the Chinese government named Foshan the nation's "Healthy Status City."

Some world health authorities have expressed off-the-record anger at China's lack of openness on these issues. After two weeks of public diplomacy, WHO yesterday issued a statement in which it "called on Beijing to be more cooperative."

[antidisestablishment]

Well, if it stops travel to China, then it must be good for the US. Screw the communists!