[Pro-Bush]

Keep this article handy...

[lilylangtree]

This is quite informative. Keep this tucked away for future reference.

[per loin]

Hospital workers who have started wearing masks and gloves have not gotten sick.

Between 80 percent and 90 percent of patients get better on their own in about a week.

Both of these statements are nonsense.

[Lijahsbubbe]

The article says it seems you have to have close contact with someone who has SARS in order to catch it.

It was reported on Fox News today that the virus can survive on an object for 24 hours.

[Positive]

I heard on the TV tonight that the virus will live for around 24 hours in a non-supportive environment.

So if someone sneezes or coughs into their hand(s) then grasps a door knob, everyone who touches that door knob is exposed.

Also, the experts are really worried about "super carriers." According to reports all 139 cases in Toronto can be directly or indirectly traced to one single woman who was in Hong Kong.

The World Health Orgnization (WHO) has, for the first time in its existence adviced against travel to Beijing and Toronto...can you imagine that ?!?!

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Living/ap20030423_1578.html

Tip:::Watch CHN (NYSE)China Fund Inc. (Closed End Fund) down 10.56% since last Thursday. During that same period the Standard & Poors 500 has been up 2.9%. During most of that period the war and Laci Peterson have been dominating the news...as SARS dominates more and more of the headlines you'll see CHN drop. If it really tanks; like 50% - 60% that'll tell you how much effect the SARS panic is having.

Oh! And wash your hands a lot!

[Russell Scott]

Right now its hard to say if this is a last day plague, or mass hysteria.

Matthew 24
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I have to admit I'm a bit nervous to be travelling on airplanes the next couple of weekends.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

BTW, I see you're relatively new to posting here at FR - keep up the good work! Thank you for contributing!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

BTW, later in the summer, we are flying to Canada...... but not Toronto. Not sure how all this is going to pan out at this point.