[FreepForever]

The epidemic is even more dangerous in rural China where the medical infrastructure is very primitive. In remote towns and villages, there's no hospitals barring dismal clinics. Peasants can get sick, take some herbal medication, infect others, die at home and buried without the government knowing it. Therefore, even when all health officials come clean with the number of cases, the present data does not necessarily reflect the magnitude of the situation in all of China.

[ContemptofCourt]

I don't think that you comprehend the big picture.

Lets assume that every person in the US gets infected with SARS and, lets say 10% die...thats what, 22 million dead?

Kill off 10% of China's population and you are still left with 1 Billion people. That is still 5 times the population of the US. That is still alot of people clamoring to make $15 a week to bang out some Barbie dolls.

[Domestic Church]

"The epidemic is even more dangerous in rural China where the medical infrastructure is very primitive. In remote towns and villages, there's no hospitals barring dismal clinics"

It will eliminate the AIDS problem there that's for sure. It will also eliminate the need for a one child per family rule. The shoe fits.