this is most unfortunate as the Canadians seemed to be getting it under control in time to worry about Nile and BSE.
Without in any sense wishing to appear callous, it may be of some comfort that the possible victims were very old.
In my city, we had three confirmed in the last 8 weeks: all were young nurses in their twenties and all have now recovered.

Dragon rider........that link you gave does not work....sais something of id rendered......

just when we think we're finally rid of it...
what I'm worried about, though, it a large resurgence of SARS in the fall. I wonder if it might go somewhat dormant in the warmer months (like colds and flus) and come back with a vengance in the fall. I guess we can only wait and see.

I do a lot of business with canada so I gues I'm in touch every day with someone there.
It's very bad luck for the Canadians, but I'm tempted to observe that -in democratic Canada where there was a great deal of talk about voluntary quarantine, about perhaps a fine etc. it's not under control; and in China -once the Govt. came clean - it is under control: in China, when you're quarantined: you're quarantined - - patients, nurses, doctors everyone: anyone disobeying risks severe sentence sincluding death.
Now, SARS was media-hype, nothing more: but it would be interesting to see how democracies would cope with a genuine natural or man-made epidemic.

We won't ever see SARS go completely away because it apparently has an animal reservoir (it infects some animals that come into contact with humans.)

Like the flu.

I'll predict that this outbreak will be minor. In two years, people will stop screaming and flinching every time there's a case or four of SARS in a city.

Do you think SARS will spread to the United States, if so, how soon?

Without doubt. As to when, that is the $64 question.

Good grief -when I first read dragon-R's Chinese release I thought it said that they'd seized "peasants".
Seriously, I had an e-mail from a former member fo my staff who has just returned to Ontario to continue his students and he tells me it's a bigger panic than we had in China.

They say ti could have been spread because of cats that Chinese people ate as a delecacy. People been eating wild and domestic cats for thousands of years there, now all the sudden, it breaks out? Unlikely.

I still think its bio warfare.

hear from someone who lives in toronto they thought it was gone then a spike in causes occured as the virus resurged back it's some scary times, i'm just happy that my chances of dieing are lower since i'm younger