[CathyRyan]

Bold added by me.

[mewzilla]

Uh oh.

[CathyRyan]

To find articles keyed on the word sars

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/keyword/sars

[mewzilla]

You don't suppose they could have come in contact with the virus when they were removing their protective gear?

[CathyRyan]

Jupiter suits maybe the new fashion craze

[VeganFreeper]

Bump.

Graphs can be found here: http://www.sars-spread.com/

[Nick Danger]

[MichaelDammit]

This is significant....and those graphs arent bending over at all like the media had previously reported....like I said before "This is going to get out of hand".

Thanks for your continued bird dogging on this subject.

[friendly]

Canada's health care system is a (truly) sick joke, a media driven fraud. It lacks the capacity to cope with SARS, or anything else for that matter.

SARS is a potential blessing to the Canadians, if it causes them to look behind the carefully crafted curtain, into their sham of a system.

The crooked Liberal Party politicians now have a convenient excuse for the foreseeable future: "Nothing works in Medicare and OHIP because of SARS. That is why the waiting lists are so long." (Note: Medicare = Canadian national health care, OHIP = Ontario health insurance plan)

Sooooo... How come the US has (so far) contained SARS and the American health care system still operates, more or less, despite more exposure to SARS, with vastly more people coming from infected regions of South China?

[snopercod]

Are Cold-EZE and Zicam of any value in reducing SARS to plain old ARS?

[Publius6961]

Canada has a "different" idea of multiculturalism and world relations.
They firmly believed it was "better" "harmless" and carried no cost.

Hard way to find out you're wrong.
Good luck, Canucks.

[Dog Gone]

"What the CDC mentioned to us last night was that, in their studies, they found that you could still culture viable virus from surfaces after as much as 24 hours, which is longer than we normally expect viruses to be able to survive in the environment," he said.

That's the most troubling statement in the article to me.

[wcbtinman]

The Andromeda Strain.

[Prince Charles]

"What the CDC mentioned to us last night was that, in their studies, they found that you could still culture viable virus from surfaces after as much as 24 hours, which is longer than we normally expect viruses to be able to survive in the environment," he said.

Great.

[snopercod]

Check out ViroPharma.

ViroPharma Incorporated is committed to the commercialization, development and discovery of antiviral pharmaceuticals. ViroPharma is focused on drug development and discovery activities in hepatitis C, and also is pursuing clinical development activities to treat diseases caused by picornavirus infections. The company's lead HCV compound is in human clinical trials, and the company is considering the development of Picovir(R) to treat patients suffering from severe or life-threatening enteroviral infections.

These guys have been working on a cure for the common cold for a number of years. DISCLAIMER: I don't own this stock, nor do I have any financial interest in it one way of the other. Buyer beware.

[CathyRyan]

And now an article that says there may not be super spreaders.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/04/20/health.superspreaders.reut/

[blam]

Being a retired chip-maker and around 'clean rooms' most of my life, I have already wondered if placing these people in a clean room environment could be a partial solution.

Clean Rooms

I used to have an engineer who stayed in the clean-room as much as possible at certain times of the year...he had severe allergies (hay fever).

[CathyRyan]

And now an article about Super-Spreaders.....

Are "Superspreaders" Ground Zero of SARS epidemic?

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N19261755.htm

[forewarning]

...you could still culture viable virus from surfaces after as much as 24 hours...

At least this is longer than the normal shipping time for imports.

[CathyRyan]

U.S.: Time to re-look 'un-American' idea

'Quarantine' is a loaded word with metaphorical implications that many of us in America have fortunately forgotten.

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,184384,00.html

[this_ol_patriot]

Silly question but did they check for fleas?