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To: Ilaine who wrote (597)	6/25/2003 6:30:57 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) of 1070

CB, I doubt that because the sars bug is a big bugger. It'll take a lot of mutation to hide all the sticky out bits which our immune systems use to identify it. A bit like a wolf in sheep's clothing still looks like a wolf to our hyper-sensitive immune system. It won't be able to change clothes each season and look like a new babe on the block. It'll look like mutton dressed as lamb. But I admit that I don't know quite what an RNA virus is and just how many changes of clothes the sars bug can do over a few years. Anyway, right now, those people must be quite immune. Maybe in a couple of years they won't be to a sars bug in drag. Colds are really small viruses, so can hide better and they have a vast pool of infection in which to mutate. Umpty million people at any time have a cold. There are only a few 100 or so with the sars bug at present and the sars bugs are being killed off really fast. So, there's no chance of those people catching the bug again next winter. If they did, it would be a very mild infection. Mqurice

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