To: seamole
Another thing to consider is what if it the body can't kill it and it resides permanently in a person to flare-up into pnemonia when their immune systems are depressed -like HIV and STDs?
I've been wondering why most of the fatalities have been middle-aged people. Perhaps it's because they work and don't have the time or energy reserve for their body's immune system to suppress the infection when symptoms begin. Then by the time they do react it's progressed to pnemonia. The elderly can rest as they need to and fight it back down and the young have plenty of energy so they can easily rebound as symptoms set in.
I suppose the real test would be if people who were 'cured' became reinfected.
17 posted on
04/08/2003 8:35:33 PM PDT by
Justa
To: All
This SARS is eating up headlines during wartime.
It's under the radar then over the radar. Tests work, then don't work.
Somethings up with this stuff. Looks to me like the Chinese were playing fast and loose with some bug, one of the lab rats got hooked up, booked, exposed a buncha people in a major transportation hub, sending it out and getting things rolling.
First it's a airborne, next it was insects, now its sexual transmission.
What's next? I'm not in a panic over it, its just all the news about it constantly changes.
Captain Trips! Bump.
Whats the worldwide death total so far?
18 posted on
04/08/2003 10:39:54 PM PDT by
Stopislamnow
(Because tomorrow we'll all be dead and won't be able to)
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