[flamefront]

I know you have been following this adjustment of the statistics well, but here is a clear title:

Sars 'kills one in five'
The first detailed study of the spread of the Sars virus in Hong Kong has discovered that the death rate among sufferers was much higher than previously estimated.
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the new study - the first to be based on a statistically sound sample of 1,425 cases - puts the death rate at one in five (20%) of those admitted to hospital.
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The new research is published on the website of The Lancet medical journal.

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...the new study - the first to be based on a statistically sound sample of 1,425 cases -puts the death rate at one in five (20%) of those admitted to hospital.

Not that SARS isn't serious, just wanted to add a little emphasis to the rest of the story...

Note, this bug is new, I doubt anyone would offer a guess as to how many people have been infected and not admitted to a hospital.

Unnecessary and sometimes even necessary panic often leads to poor decision making.

[Centurion2000]

I can believe that it is that deadly but how many deaths are there considering the total number of cases ?

[The Pheonix]

HK's Prince of Wales Hospital reported that serum drawn from the blood of SARS patients who recovered had cured 10 out of 20 SARS patients......there is still hope