[vetvetdoug]

I have it on the authority of "highly educated" Mississippi State Microbiology Graduate that this SARS outbreak is nothing to be worried about. The event is overblown. We have nothing to worry about. SARS will never spread to the US like it has in China. We have nothing to fear since no one in the US has died from the disease. (SARCASM).

Epidemiologists and those that work with diseases in populations think otherwise because of the virulence and infectivity of this virus. Extreme caution and care is indicated because this virus will spread easily. Dr. Brian at the University of Tennessee has spent the last 20 years studying the Coronaviruses and lets ask him if he is worried.

[Sender]

Perhaps the brightest thought on SARS is that it's mortality rate is low, and here in the US we have good sanitation and medical care. I'll wager that most healthy people here who contract SARS only miss a few days work and feel terrible, as with the flu. It is the poor, dirty, overcrowded countries who will see the worst effects.

[TaxRelief]

Hey Doug,

The CDC has really made it clear that SARS is not highly contagious unless people are careless in their personal hygiene. Even if a glob of something disgusting landed on you from an infected person, it has to get pushed into your nose, mouth or eyes for you to become infected. Of course you can unknowingly become infected if you touch a contaminated surface. (so sanitize)

You know better than anyone that if one cat in a household has coronavirus, the secret to keeping the other cats healthy is seperate litter boxes. They usually don't get sick from just being together, but they do get sick from cleaning contaminated fecal matter off their fur.