[discostu]

You ever hear of hilight and link? I didn't say it was not contagious, do you think I'm a moron, or maybe you're the moron since you can't tell the difference between not THAT contagious and not contagious. Simply put SARS doesn't tranmit very well, people can spend significant time around infected people and not become infected themselves, nobody else in that nurse's family got SARS and she was symptom positive and non-quarantined for quite a while. I'm not saying standard precations, including quarantine for known and probable SARS patients, shouldn't be taken. I'm saying shutting down an entire hospital because of a RUMOR that somebody on staff got SARS is STUPID. The hospital has an isolation ward, use it.

[Nov3]

Simply put SARS doesn't tranmit very well, people can spend significant time around infected people and not become infected themselves, nobody else in that nurse's family got SARS and she was symptom positive and non-quarantined for quite a while.

You must have your head in the sand. People in isolation rooms in world class hospitals are infecting the staff who wear respirators, masks eye protection, and suits in negative pressure rooms. To say this disease is not highly contagious is moronic.

In China hospitals are being quarantined because the staff is being infected in large numbers. Do you really think they aren't careful having probably watched dozens die? This disease is a monster from the infection standpoint

I would hate to see a contagious disease.