SARS Is Here to Stay, Hong Kong and Singapore Tell Citizens

The New York Times ^ | April 8, 2003 | Keith Bradsher

[CathyRyan]

Guangzhou was the home of a 64-year old professor of nephrology

The person said to have brought Sars to Amory Gardens was a kidney patient.

[riri]

No New CARS Canadian Deaths

[flutters]

At this point lets just hope you can only get this once and not 2 to 3 times a year like a cold.

Now that is a scary thought. Has anyone caught it twice?

[flutters]

I'm sorry to hear that. I wish her the best. You'll both be in my prayers.

[flutters]

Ohio has 5 reported cases now. I heard it on the news tonight so I don't have a link.

[CathyRyan]

At least 45 new cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) were reported in Hong Kong, the epicenter of the global spread. That brought the total in that international gateway to 928. At least 25 residents have died.

[I. M. Trenchant]

In the case of the devastating Spanish Flu epidemic at the end of WWI, the first wave of disease in the Spring of the year had a relatively low mortality rate, but what is believed to have been the same virus seems to have mutated, and by the autumn of the year, initiated a second wave of infection that led to the massive loss of life. So, I guess the stats are lacking, but I'd suppose that many who survived the less virulent wave in the Spring may have had limited, but improved resistance to the second infection in the autumn -- and indeed, this may have been why the mortality of the second epidemic wasn't even worse than it was.