[Judith Anne]

I think the article mentioned that the two weeks of isolation were one of the most stressful things about the illness. No doubt the nurses in the article had seen the effects of the illness on their patients, and nothing about their own symptoms was news to them. I doubt they were shocked.

[goldstategop]

Which means patients need a lot of human contact and help to make it through. Isolating them from fellow patients is a bad idea. Seeing others make it boosts your own will to recover and resume an active life. That's one of the lessons of SARS.

[DoughtyOne]

There haven't really been all that many cases when you get down to it, so it wasn't an observable event until these nurses came down with it themselves. As the article made abundantly clear, we still don't know the full ramifications of contracting this disease and experiencing it's full course.