This has the first specific info I have seen on the virus. The whole article is worth reading.

Thank you very much for posting this.

other sections of the virus' RNA bear no resemblance to any known coronavirus

And China has been very reluctant to allow anybody access.

Clever these Chinese.

It's now in Georgia which makes five southern states it's now in:

Alabama 1
California 14
Connecticut 1
Georgia 1
Hawaii 3
Illinois 2
Kansas 1
Maine 2
Massachusetts 2
Michigan 2
Missouri 2
Mississippi 1
Minnesota 3
New Hampshire 1
New Jersey 2
New Mexico 1
North Carolina 2
New York 10
Ohio 1
Pennsylvania 3
Rhode Island 1
Texas 3
Utah 4
Virginia 3
Washington 1
Wisconsin 2

Total US yesterday = 59 today = 69

Not good

Canada now has 129 which includes 4 kids, two of them under 24 months old. At the high rise in Hong Kong that has so many (213) - they are taking the inhabitants to quarantine camps but many got away into the population yesterday before the quarantine officials came this morning. Because of this high rise, they are now saying that SARS is most probably airborne.

N95 masks are now selling for 50% higher then three days ago on eBay and stores are starting to run out in the US, especially in those states where there are suspected cases.

As a note, the US has only said that cases are suspected, they refuse to admit that any of them are SARS. Some of this is due to the definition that says the person so affected must have traveled to China, Hong Kong, Vietnam or Singapore or been in direct contact with someone who was infected. Since 80% of the SARS cases don't need to be or end up in the hospital, who knows how many actual cases are out there.

Oil of Oregano, Olive Leaf Extract and Elderberry are still the herbs of choice. see: http://www.vitaminusa.com/micmodtecnot.html

Wash you hands, often, especially after having touched things in public. Keep your hands away from your face unless you wash them first.

Makes me wonder if the Chinese have been monkeying with some virus genetics.

Absolutely! They have major articles out there on Cloning alone! Look at this: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=China+cloning

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Yikes, then if you do a search on Guangdong + cloning...you get weird stuff like this:

http://home.zsu.edu.cn/journal/chinese/medical/_private/20022/english/02.htm

huh, their were doing some type of gene cloning with the HIV virus: http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:IcFsvJjNW2MC:sti.newhealth.com.cn/PDF/PDF%2520NO.5/0121e29-33.pdf+Guangdong+cloning&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Actually, the Freepers that are cataloguing stuff on SARs may want to include this entire search result: http://www.google.com/search?q=Guangdong+cloning&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 there was a lot of cloning research being done in Guangdong

Thanks for posting. The obvious concern is an accidental release from some germ-warfare experiment, a la Captain Trips. I hope this isn't the case, that it's just something from the rural animal-human microbe brewery that naturally exists in Guangdong farming...

And apparently the Guangdong province border is near Hong Kong.

Is it normal for a newly discovered virus to be this different from its closest cousins?

heads UP!

"Not Good...

Wash you hands, often, especially after having touched things in public. Keep your hands away from your face unless you wash them first."

DITTOS AND DOUBLE DITTOS.

Thank you Capernia for posting this. I had NO IDEA this had reached the US, tho' to be truthful I knew it was only a matter of time. There is something mighty fishy (and I don't mean a cross-species source for the ailment) about this whole thing, or I suppose it could be a new "Spanish Flu". That also was incredibly fast moving, killed the young and the healthy, and spread at a time of war.

This is not good.

**unpublished data indicate the virus "looks more like an animal coronavirus than a human one, but we don't know what animal yet.”**


I read a few days ago that it might have come from a horse. Has anyone else seen that?

Something you snipped

An analysis of cases in Hong Kong from February 22 to March 22 found the virus was not hitting the customarily susceptible populations -- the very young and very old -- as the mean age of patients was 52. Similarly, few patients were smokers or people with underlying health problems.

Now wouldn't that be something, smoke and stay healthy.