SARS - Serious and Airborne No Matter What the Public is Told.

CDC Website ^ | March 26, 2003 | CDC

[Nov3]

There was a debate as to whether this was airborne over the past couple of days. Anybody with any sense knew it was. The CDC evidently thinks so. I don't think I want to be in an airplane with anyone with this $h!T!!!

[AAABEST]

ping

[Cold Heat]

Crap! This thing will go pandemic for sure.

[AAABEST]

If I were to get this disease, I would drink a ton of water. That would help reduce fever, prevent dehydration and add volume. I would also take aspirin to keep the fever down and for anti-inflamitory purposes. Might consider taking multi-vitamins as well.

As of now, that's all I can see that can be done.

[Nov3]

Crap! This thing will go pandemic for sure.

I certainly hope not. This could get out of hand in short order. No wonder people were scared to death in China. I wonder just how bad it truly is over there.

[Nov3]

As of now, that's all I can see that can be done.

Besides getting a respirator for the house! The virus itself is untreatable. Completely.

[arkady_renko]

Do you think that all of the commercial flights from the Orient met all of these criteria? Not.

A_R

[pttttt]

If I were to get this disease, I would drink a ton of water. That would help reduce fever, prevent dehydration and add volume. I would also take aspirin to keep the fever down and for anti-inflamitory purposes. Might consider taking multi-vitamins as well.

Zinc might help too. It seems to make the bugs less robust and also seems to keep infections from starting.

[patton]

As you breathe the airline's recirculated air, remember to thank the FEDGOV for protecting you from secondhand smoke.

[Nov3]

This is the entirety of the info on the treatment page of the CDC.

Treatment March 25, 2003, 12:00 PM EST Because the etiology of these illnesses has not yet been determined, no specific treatment recommendations can be made at this time. Empiric therapy should include coverage for organisms associated with any community-acquired pneumonia of unclear etiology, including agents with activity against both typical and atypical respiratory pathogens (2). Treatment choices may be influenced by severity of the illness. Infectious disease consultation is recommended. Clinicians evaluating suspected cases should use standard precautions (e.g., hand hygiene) together with airborne (e.g., N-95 respirator) and contact (e.g., gowns and gloves) precautions (see the Updated Interim Domestic Infection Control Guidance in the Health Care and Community Setting for Patients with Suspected SARS). Until the mode of transmission has been defined more precisely, eye protection also should be worn for all patient contact. As more clinical and epidemiologic information becomes available, interim recommendations will be updated.

In other words, support the person and hope they don't die!

[Nov3]

You mean airliners don't have the HEPA filters this documant recommends?

[Cold Heat]

This obviously speads the same as the common cold virus. Isolation wards will become overloaded very quickly.

The bug is out of the box and I fear cannot be stopped unless it burns out for some reason.(I don't see it happening)

[patton]

heh.

[Cold Heat]

I have caught more colds in a doctors waiting room than I can count.

[AAABEST]

LOL. All that bureau-speak and they leave out "take an aspirin" and hydration, which is common knowledge for controlling fever to us regular folks.

[AAABEST]

My wife got pink-eye going to the eye doctor.

[patton]

One of my kids had RSV as a baby - we call him the $100,000 kid.

He is.

Scary stuff.

[Cold Heat]

Damn arm rest on the chairs. Door knobs, Dr's hands.

You name it!

[Cold Heat]

I am one of the lucky one who survived scarlet fever. No heart damage that I know of, but I do suffer from atrial fib.

[StonyMan451]

I don't know whether or not it'll go pandemic "for sure", but the nominal death rate, 4%, will certainly rise dramatically if it does. The 4% rate is based on there being lots of available hospital beds and ventilators.

As it stands, 80-90% of the people who get the disease become seriously/critically ill. The reason the death rate's so low is that they can be supported by ventilators, etc., until their body rallies its defenses and overcomes the pathogen.