It's not politically correct to say what it is. end of story.
You should as the CDC in Atlanta about that. It is ACTUALLY a genetically modified version of the common cold except that a high percentage die from pnemonia... It has NOTHING to do with living conditions and it has already spread to North America. Luckily it hasn't gotten to Fat Frank's trailer park yet...
Not true, keep reading. SARs=Asian flu. Living conditions aid the spread of Asian flu. end of story.
LATEST SARS INFO CDC
Researchers scrambling to identify the cause of SARS believe it may result from the genetic mixture of two strains of a previously innocuous organism called the coronavirus, or possibly of a coronavirus and another bug. This chance recombination might have occurred inside a mouse, a chicken or a pig before the virus jumped to humans.
Human coronavirus infections -- responsible for about a quarter of all common colds -- are usually so mild that no one has ever tried to make a vaccine to prevent them or a drug to treat them. That's no one's fault, considering the seemingly limited threat posed by the infections, but it puts the world at a disadvantage. While intensive care can keep most SARS patients alive, there are no drugs designed to combat the infection.
Researchers scrambling to identify the cause of SARS believe it may result from the genetic mixture of two strains of a previously innocuous organism called the coronavirus, or possibly of a coronavirus and another bug. This chance recombination might have occurred inside a mouse, a chicken or a pig before the virus jumped to humans.
Human coronavirus infections -- responsible for about a quarter of all common colds -- are usually so mild that no one has ever tried to make a vaccine to prevent them or a drug to treat them. That's no one's fault, considering the seemingly limited threat posed by the infections, but it puts the world at a disadvantage. While intensive care can keep most SARS patients alive, there are no drugs designed to combat the infection.
A bit of info on the 1918 outbreak.
April 02, 2003
Disease revives terror of 1918 flu
By Nigel Hawkes
THE lightning spread of Sars brings grim echoes of the greatest world pandemic, the 1918 flu scourge.
Like Sars it happened during a time of war and was helped on its way by mass travel — of troops, not tourists. It killed about 2.5 per cent of those who caught it, roughly the same as Sars.
It infected one billion people, half the world’s population, and killed between 20 and 40 million, a figure that exceeds the bubonic plague in the 14th century and smallpox in the 16th, and is challenged only by today’s Aids pandemic.
The first case to be traced was a young army private, Albert Mitchell, at Camp Funston, Kansas, in March 1918. By the end of the week 500 soldiers at the camp were ill.
Mitchell may not have been the first case but he was the first recorded. Tracking of epidemics owes its birth to the 1918 flu outbreak.
This first wave killed relatively few. Something changed during the spring, perhaps in the trenches of France, to make the virus far more dangerous.
The second wave, which swept through Europe during the spring and summer of 1918 and returned to the US with the troops towards the end of the year, was much deadlier.
In October 1918, the worst month for the epidemic in the US, 195,000 Americans died, many of them between 20 and 40, the age range who suffered most.
Today we have far better tools to trace the spread of Sars, and more sophisticated treatments; but we also have airlines to hasten its spread.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk
April 02, 2003
Disease revives terror of 1918 flu
By Nigel Hawkes
THE lightning spread of Sars brings grim echoes of the greatest world pandemic, the 1918 flu scourge.
Like Sars it happened during a time of war and was helped on its way by mass travel — of troops, not tourists. It killed about 2.5 per cent of those who caught it, roughly the same as Sars.
It infected one billion people, half the world’s population, and killed between 20 and 40 million, a figure that exceeds the bubonic plague in the 14th century and smallpox in the 16th, and is challenged only by today’s Aids pandemic.
The first case to be traced was a young army private, Albert Mitchell, at Camp Funston, Kansas, in March 1918. By the end of the week 500 soldiers at the camp were ill.
Mitchell may not have been the first case but he was the first recorded. Tracking of epidemics owes its birth to the 1918 flu outbreak.
This first wave killed relatively few. Something changed during the spring, perhaps in the trenches of France, to make the virus far more dangerous.
The second wave, which swept through Europe during the spring and summer of 1918 and returned to the US with the troops towards the end of the year, was much deadlier.
In October 1918, the worst month for the epidemic in the US, 195,000 Americans died, many of them between 20 and 40, the age range who suffered most.
Today we have far better tools to trace the spread of Sars, and more sophisticated treatments; but we also have airlines to hasten its spread.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk
How is the spread of a disease a liberal,conservative issue?It makes me think that the lines of US politics are hopelessly divided.
