[Domestic Church]

The chlamydia pneumonae is just a sidekick infection to the particular coronavirus in Chinese patients along with the earlier paramyxovirus pieces showing up in some other cases outside of China.

There might be something to this, some viral-microbe symbiosis occurring. Or there might be another agent (microbe or environmental) that hasn't been uncovered that is quietly ravaging immune systems (drastic increase in childhood asthma over the past decade.) SARS is hitting the healthiest sector of the population.

[steplock]

From another research center:

"The X-rays of many patients resembled the pattern of pneumonia produced by a microbe, Pneumocystis carinii pneumoniae, or PCP, that is common in patients with AIDS but rarely seen in people with normal immune systems."

"A point of confusion was a statement by the Chinese that some seriously ill patients showed "immune system functions at a low level." There was no mention of whether such patients were infected with H.I.V., the AIDS virus. Dr. Heymann said the W.H.O. was seeking a clarification."