Keeeeeerrrrrrreeeeeect.
But it is not too late for the out of work HIV hunters to start squeezing big time bucks out of the system. Just watch your congresscritter start pouring money on this made up problem and you will see what I mean. If it ever becomes a true epidemic (I predict it won't) then it will go the way of all epidemics. It will rise, it will peak, it will disappear and it will do it in fairly short order. Typically a few weeks. If this one hangs on longer than a few weeks it will be because the WHO has put it on life support. As you noted, the WHO needs a SARS every once in a while to justify it's existence.
Watch for the WHO, CDC and NIH danger signs:
1. It is mutating.
2. Some people are immune.
3. It is dormant in your system but can attack at any time.
4. You may have the virus but show no symptoms (ever).
5. We need to medicate you even though you have no systems.
6. Our latest, untested HIV or cancer drug is recommended for your symptom-free body.
7. Miniscule quantities of the SARS causing virus are actually found in the victims.
8. There is no need to provide scientific evidence that the coronavirus (or whatever) is the cause of SARS because everyone knows it is.
9. We've identified a few more conditions (like the common cold) that are caused by the SARS virus.
10. We can't explain why some people have all of the symptoms and actually die but have not a singe SARS causing virus in their body.
11. We need $50,000,000 to study the problem and find a cure. Hopefully one that doesn't kill more people than it saves.
Still a SARS skeptic - InterceptPoint