[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #1

I read from a news report that SARS could be a seasonal illness, which tends to strike people in the winter. Hopefully, when the weather warms up further, this will go away at least until the next winter.

[Consort]

The obsession with SARS will outlast the disease.

[goldstategop]

Its just like the common cold. Over time it will attenuate into something less lethal. But there's no getting rid of it. This isn't polio or smallpox.

[decimon]

Maybe some tea will help Immune

[Eric Cassano]

Despite an unparalleled global counterattack, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is likely to be with humanity indefinitely, infectious disease experts say.

"Unparalleled global counterattack"? I must have blinked and missed it.

I wouldn't consider a "Don't wear masks/Please visit Chinatown" campaign by Chamber of Commerce-types much of a counterattack. Oh wait... they handed out informative cards at the airport. My mistake.

What's next from our proudly-baffled scientific community? A counterattack against accidental drowning by discouraging the use of life jackets? (Unless you're in close contact with water of course.)

The scientists should start working on a nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy head, fever so we don't die medicine.