SARS pnuemonia

[Nocturnal]

Anyone afraid of this still? It's killed nine people, my dad said to start worrying when it wipes out a couple thousand at one time.

 

[Grey]

He is about right, the news is just covering it because it could be terrorism based. The Flu takes out thousands of people a year and barely makes the news. If you start hearing about city's being quarantined then worry.

 

[dighn]

hope they contain it. or it could be a worldwide epidemic :Q

 

[OutHouse]

Yes this is some scary stuff.

 

[UNCjigga]

They are saying this could be the start of the next long-overdue Influenza epidemic, but eary reports say this 'mystery bug' is not related to influenza.

 

[MadRat]

Isn't this the pnuemonia common to AIDS patients?

 

[Arkaign]

SARS!!!!

 

[Crono]

Substitute "SARS"/"pneumonia" for swine flu, and this thread could be from last month.

 

[destrekor]

Substitute "SARS"/"pneumonia" for swine flu, and this thread could be from last month.

SARS is a bug that's not as virulent as influenza is. Plus, the media sensationalism of SARS, plus China's seriously hardcore efforts, effectively neutered the bug making it tough to grab a strong hold on humans.
When it infected someone is was nasty, but it didn't spread nearly as easily as influenza.

However, sensationalism is sensationalism. I however don't necessarily view sensationalism as evil, it can be somewhat effective in helping slow down the spread of infection of any pathogen.