SARS may spread through air, studies find (from ATSNN)

According to recent studies, scientists believe that SARS may spread not only with direct human contact, but through the air. Although they(scientists) say there is no direct proof the virus may be airborne, but because of its rapid spreading, SARS being called an airborne virus is quite viable.



If this is true, and the virus is airborne, or has mutated into airborne(i don't know how viruses work) then this means we are in deep trouble of another outbreak. Then again the virus could have affected other smaller life organisms in the air, which again means we are in for another outbreak. This totally shocked me because i though the SARS virus was contained and totally gone... I guess not.

So if this is true the virus should be a global one by now. Just one coughing carrier on a crowded airline flight would spread it to hundreds and those hundreds have the potential to spread it quite fast. If it is almost everywhere us with a good immune system will build strong anti-bodies or something else to fight it(anti-bodies dont fight viruses) the rest will just have to cough it out.

I really liked that movie Outbreak. You guys should see it if you haven't already. Raises an interesting question though. Say a city was contaminated and had to be quarintined... what then? Everyone is sick. Those who aren't would get sick by being in proximity of those who are. If the disease is incureable, how would the government deal with the city?
-S