[Smogger]

Everyone is totally downlplaying SARS to prevent a panic. You better believe SARS is some series sh*t. You don't have to be a doctor to see that a 7.2% (and rising) fatality rate is B-A-D.

Personally, I would like to see travel banned too and from any infected country. As someone pointed out on another thread that politician's collective reactions to the illness in China, Toronto, and yes even here in the US can be likened to the Mayor and City Council in the movie Jaws. God forbid an abundance of caution interfere with the pursuit of the almighty dollar. Anyone who states otherwise is "overreacting."

Fact is no one knows what we are dealing with here. You don't have to be a doctor or a virologist to see that. That goes for the CDC too.

[ContemptofCourt]

Personally, I would like to see travel banned too and from any infected country.

Yes, lets all lock ourselves in our houses.....

[cake_crumb]

Sorry...SARS fatality rate is 5.8%, not 5.5%. I shouldn't have tried to go from memory.

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[EnquiringMind]

"Fact is no one knows what we are dealing with here. You don't have to be a doctor or a virologist to see that. That goes for the CDC too."

Does anyone remember the CDC telling us that Bob Stevens, the first person diagnosed with anthrax, contracted the disease from drinking tainted water from a stream in North Carolina? I remember vividly.

I'm as skeptical as you when it comes to the CDC reporting the truth.