[DoughtyOne]

I agree that isolation is a problem, but then it's been a problem for any communicable disease over time. It's a necessary evil.

BTW are you really seeing 15% mortality on this. Early reports stated there was around a 96% survival rate, which compares quite favorably with general run of the mill influenza outbreaks contrary to the hysteria surrounding SARS.

[Judith Anne]

The mortality rate has been extensively discussed on these threads, and is well known to be 15% for patients under 60, and 50% for those over 60. Please see previous articles posted here for more discussion.

Ordinary flu has around 1% mortality rate for all patients. The Spanish flu epidemic had a mortality rate of around 2.4%. SARS is deadly.

[Future Useless Eater]

SARS - Treatment/Containment tables - updated with Wednesday's numbers
...China cheating on their SARS reporting - smoking gun evidence here