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

CDC Website ^ | March 26, 2003 | CDC

[Colorado Doug]

I'm drinking iced tea

Remember that Lipton sonsers the Dixie Chicks.

[Colorado Doug]

sponsers=sponsors My bad

[meyer]

Remember that Lipton sonsers the Dixie Chicks.

Nestea, but thanks for the warning. :^)

[AAABEST]

Should you get this, (and I sincerely hope you do not), you will be far too sick to be able to hydrate yourself much less take an aspirin. An illness this severe will not be helped by aspirin anyway.

If it gets bad, I'm stocking up on ringers lactate. Best stuff in the world, and I know how to pop and IV. I completely disagree on your opinion on aspirin. It not only helps reduce fever but it's anti-inflamatory. Keeps vital from swelling namely the brain.

Granted, these are small measures with something so serious, but people are surviving this. Hydration, fever reduction and reducing swelling can be a factor, especially in a "close call" situation.

[Nov3]

For everyone to think about when we hear that this disease is hard to transmit

[Kozak]

After 3--7 days, a lower respiratory phase begins with the onset of a dry, nonproductive cough or dyspnea, which might be accompanied by or progress to hypoxemia. In 10%--20% of cases, the respiratory illness is severe enough to require intubation and mechanical ventilation. The case-fatality rate among persons with illness meeting the current WHO case definition of SARS is approximately 3%.

Where are you getting this 80 to 90% serious to critically ill number? As the CDC site notes only 10 to 20% need ventilatory support. I have seen nothing in the literature to support the numbers you site. Come on folks, yes we have a new disease, yes it can be serious and yes some people die from it. It's not the end of the world as we know it.