[MatthewViti]

I really wish the US would stop people coming into the country from affected areas.

[EternalHope]

Good article.

[Judith Anne]

Another excellent per loin post...I should sign off, really, because I'm in a goofy mood tonight...but I'm glad I saw this...

[goldstategop]

SARS won't have much of an impact here in the States with our advanced medical system and high standards of public hygiene. But if it gets past Hong Kong to much of the Third World, look out: it'll make the AIDS devastation look like a Sunday stroll in the park.

[mercy]

1 in 7. Hmmmmm. That's still a ways from 1/3 of mankind. I wonder what's coming along to fill the gap?

[Russell Scott]

Is it
SARS - An extremely deadly and serious health problem.

Or is it just an old flu/cold bug that has resurfaced, but is being hyped up by WHO (another UN shame), using it as a weapon of mass distraction. This in order to distract the international media as America drains the Axis of UN Weasels, Evils, and Weevils swamp in Iraq, exposing the UN as nothing but a giant criminal enterprise. In other words:

iSARS - Ignore Seeing America Remove Saddam

Only time will tell. As of right now I choose number two, iSARS. Not anywhere near enough deaths to think of it anymore dangerous then other bugs of the past. Of course, it could be a serious plague of Biblical proportions. I'm open-minded on this subject.

[Grut]

Hell of a solution to the aging Boomer problem, though.

[Prince Charles]

His research also found that Sars remains infectious much longer than other viruses.

This is extremely troubling news.

[JustPiper]

Now I know this is bio-terror!

[green team 1999]

okay people,now is the time to buy some plastic and tape!,
don`t make it too tight or you will not be able to walk,drive or sit at work,and do not suffocate.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Latest figures show that Sars has infected almost 4,649 people in 26 countries around the world and has claimed the lives of 275 people.

So SARS deaths are still way behind deaths due to choking on hotdogs??

[Prince Charles]

Bird flu in humans alarms health authorities

[rwfromkansas]

This article contains some tidbit that the WHO raised its own death rate slightly as well.

I have a feeling they are maneuvering to eventually bump it up to the death rate given in the British study...

[ido_now]

SARS ORIGINS FOUND

Sudden
Attack on
Reason by the
State

It also replaces the rapidly declining volume of media attention given to the war, by something new for which the State is needed to save us all.

[not-an-ostrich]

I believe these experts "may" believe what they are quoted as saying/publishing.

[R. Scott]

From the article:

“The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently predicting a death rate of 5% to 6% and has insisted the virus could still be beaten if countries worked together to stop it from spreading.”

From the CDC Influenza Summary Update (Week ending October 20, 2001-Week 42):

“The proportion of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza was 6.4%.”

Our media is hyping SARS as a killer epidemic, and We’re All Going to DIE!
And yet, the flu and pneumonia are more deadly and no one seems in a panic.

[Petronski]

...the virus could still be beaten if countries worked together to stop it from spreading.

But that is PRECISELY why it won't be beaten. Western democracies will fight it well, but closed nations that place no value in the life of the individual will protect the reputation of the State.

And what China has withheld may already be enough to make effective containment impossible.

[CathyRyan]

I am waiting for someone who will not worry till it kills one in four. Their reason is theirs is a family of four and one in seven will not effect them. Some people should not be allowed to breed.

[verity]

100% of all living beings will die!

[blam]

One in seven!