[Semper911]

Thanks very much for pinging me to your update about the situation in rural China. Please keep me on your ping list, and don't let me miss anything.

We are witnessing the beginning of something very significant. Your perspective and reports are very valuable to us. I bet our CDC doesn't even have as much information as you have. You might even consider emailing them with your updates. Here is a link to their online contact form:

http://www.cdc.gov/netinfo.htm

I don't know what good it would do, but they might appreciate your information. I know I do.

[Ma Li]

I've been sending things to the CDC and WHO. Two months ago, I tried sending both those groups a warning. When the first news of SARS came here, people all over started buying up all the antibiotics they could (you can get lots of them over the counter here, and the others you can steal from the hospital if you have a friend who works there). They were taking them to prevent SARS, but most people here haven't the foggiest idea how those work, or what their purpose is. If they get sniffles, they take them till the sniffles go away--if that is 2, 3, 5 or 10 days. Then they stop. Building up their antibiotic resistence!