Here's some facts about sars that are indidcative of the whole media slam being just nothing better to report and hyping a disease that will be highly unlikely to effect the greater part of humanity.
It is fatal in 4% of the people who acquire it. Those people are generally old and already have a compromised immune system from another disease usually.
Most of the people who contract it are health care workers who are in close quarters with people who are sick with it.
Most people recover from it but are a little weakened for about 1 month following their recovery dependant upon their own strength.
it will kill less people than aids, in fact, more people will die this year from smoking related illnesses than will die from sars in 10 years.
and finally, another small truism, you have a better chance of strangling yourself to death with your bedsheets while you sleep than you have of contracting and dieing from sars.
I see it as a lame attempt for the Mediacl associations to grab some limelight and credibility. NOthing "scary" has happened since Aids and I think the medical associations need to reposition themselves in the eyes of society as the demi gods they felt they once were.
boo and hiss to the media for playing this up to the level of paranoid garbage that they have.
cheers
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