SARS in Singapore?

[dopcombo]

Hmm... this website doesn't make it look so scary after all.

SARS in Singapore

Any ideas how bad it is?

 

[sandorski]

I'm not sure if Singapore had SARS, if they did it was only a couple people at most.

There has been a few new concerns though. It seems that some people who seemed to recover began to have a re-occurance. It is also being thought now that many SARS survivors have scarring in the lungs, which is a permanent condition. China is the only place now where SARS is still spreading and of great concern.

As long as SARS is under control, most of us have no reason to fear, but if it should get out of control it would be the scariest disease in decades.

 

[rawoutput]

Yeah these diseases with a 2% mortality rate are going to kill us all!

 

[cpumaster]

I had friends in Singapore, he said it's pretty bad in term of the restriction and the scares (ie close school, shops, theaters, etc), but in term of the disease spread, it's not as bad as in China where the govt blundered it by trying to cover up instead of working on preventing the spread or trying to cure them.

Yeah these diseases with a 2% mortality rate are going to kill us all!

the Spanish fever epidemic only have mortality rate of 6% yet it claimed the live 14 million people worldwide.
It's not the percentage that should scare us but how much unknown about the disease should.
BTW, if half of US population are infected with SARS, that's 125 million, 2% of that is 2.5 million
try laughing that off...

 

[AndrewR]

Originally posted by: dopcombo
Hmm... this website doesn't make it look so scary after all.

SARS in Singapore

Any ideas how bad it is?

Not very good from what I've read. I think they have it under control now, but Singapore actually had quite a few cases. They took some drastic measures to restrict people from milling around and may have stopped the spread.

 

[KMurphy]

Yeah, in this day and age one death is totaly unacceptable. Stupid humans.

We need a major plague to thin out our numbers to at least 50% of our current population.

 

[rawoutput]

Originally posted by: KMurphy
Yeah, in this day and age one death is totaly unacceptable. Stupid humans.

We need a major plague to thin out our numbers to at least 50% of our current population.

The lines in Disney World would probably be a lot shorter then.