[CathyRyan]

They did the Koch's postulate on the corona virus. Who the heck nows anything about this disease at this point.

[aristeides]

I don't know how you establish that all people suffering from a new disease are infected with the same organism unless and until you first establish there is only one disease. How do you exclude the possiblity that there are two or more diseases?

[aristeides]

Interesting explanations of the super-spreaders in this article: City Of Fear, Hope: Hong Kong keeps a brave face as SARS crisis grows.

[R W Reactionairy]

"They did the Koch's postulate on the corona virus. Who the heck nows anything about this disease at this point."

It is quite difficult to reconcile the following quote from the article with the postulate requiring that the disease causing agent be present in all cases of infection. "We have only identified the corona virus in 50% of the people being treated for Sars," health ministry spokesperson Paul Gully told the Sunday edition of the Montreal newspaper La Presse."

My guess is that they just haven't tried hard enough yet. The alternative is that we are still facing something that as you indicated we know nothing about. I would love to see some more about this since my guess and $1.75 might get you a cup of coffee at Denny's.