[mewzilla]

The only time I ever ended up in the hospital for an illness was when I had an awful case of the flu. I'd gotten the flu shot that year. Just got a strain they didn't vaccinate for. If the virus is mutatating, they may have to vaccinate for more than one strain or pick a strain to vaccinate for, and won't that be fun...

[Judith Anne]

I found this interesting comment on the sidebar of another posted SARS article, sorry I didn't keep the link, but it's in the forum:

"On the new SARS scale of illness, I had a very mild disease. But I was in the hospital for nearly three weeks. And it's a month later and I'm still recovering," she said.

This is from a health care worker. She's been down two months, and is not well yet. As I said on that thread, imagine hundreds of HCWs sick with this, in the middle of an outbreak in, say, Chicago, and those HCWs are unavailable to the sick for 2-3 months....

[Judith Anne]

It's the article titled: China blocks borders over SARS.

Here's the web address of the article:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/02/health/main552139.shtml

[Domestic Church]

Forget the idea of a vaccine for SARS...it would be a miracle for a coronavirus. It won't happen any time soon though the idea is being tossed out to all of us as a panic queller. Absolute Isolation and barrier containment is the only sane way to go until they develope specific drugs to stop it. There will be entire extended families wiped out or only very young kids left from some families( including mine) if this gets into the mainstream population here.