[Tarsk]

"We need to know a lot more before it can be established to a certainty we'll be looking at a 100 million cases of SARS within a year."

He is simply suggesting that given what we know now it's a figure that's at least in the range of possibilities.

[goldstategop]

We be looking at 10 million deaths if those figures hold. With six billion people on the planet its far from being a Captain Trips rampage.