[DannyTN]

"Canadian officials have lashed out at the World Health Organization for including Toronto among the places travelers should avoid because of the spread of the pnuemonia-like viral illness from Asia, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. "

No doubt that it was this kind of reaction that stopped WHO from issuing travel advisories back when it was just 150 cases in Asia.

Because they failed to act then, almost 4300 now have it. Toronto officials should be thanking WHO for finally trying to stop the spread instead of downplaying the illness and waiting until 100,000 people in toronto have it and no one wants to go to Toronto even for necessary business and the whole city grinds to a halt.

[Dutch Boy]

Quite the contrast between how SARS and AIDS is being controlled. I wonder if the left will notice?

[Mr.Atos]

..."Fail to act" or are prevented from action. The CDC may need to take a close look at WHO procedures and nip these problems in the bud before we get a similar situation in a major American city like Chicago or Seattle. The ACLU will surely be active at obstructing the CDC attempts at quarantine of outbreaks. USAMRID will be more immune to legal obstruction, but that will expose the Administration to political savagery by Leftists grazing for issues. It will only take Erwin Chemerinsky sueing the administration or CDC on behalf of quarantined individuals to cause the kind of delay in action that could prove disasterous.