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It appears Ontario Province health officials have given up hope of containing SARS in the Toronto area. Very few people live outside the Greater Toronto Area and the nearest cities of any size are London (to the west) and Kingston (to the east), respectively about two and four hours away by car up and down Ontario's major expressway, the 401, which goes all the way from Windsor before concluding in Montreal. So its really more a question now of how far SARS will spread out of Ontario's largest city and capital.

"Very few people live outside the Greater Toronto Area and the nearest cities of any size are London (to the west) and Kingston (to the east), respectively about two and four hours away by car up and down Ontario's major expressway, the 401, which goes all the way from Windsor before concluding in Montreal. So its really more a question now of how far SARS will spread out of Ontario's largest city and capital.

What's your point? My road atlas shows that it is 88 miles to Niagra Falls. From there to Buffalo NY 21 miles. Are we supposed to take comfort that it is as close or closer to a U.S. city? In addition, if this thing gets worse in Toronto a short hop on a plane will land an infected traveler anywhere in the U.S or Canada. And [my apologies if I am getting shrill] I take at least a couple of dozen trips a year via auto that are at least two two hours in duration. From that I conclude that a couple of hours via car isn't much of a barrier unless the authorities plan on quarantining Toronto ... and at that they would need to act soon enough.

Will SARS infections continue to expand? I do not know. Can anyone take much comfort in geographic isolation. Maybe if he liked in Nome.