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Pastimes : SARS - what next?
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (626)7/4/2003 8:00:29 AM
From: Henry Niman   of 1070
 
>> That's messing with the global statistics<<

The affected area is what is missing. In the US someone with atypical pneumonia and a history of travel to an affected area is a probable SARS case. However, most don't really have SARS, so they test negative for antibody and they don't die (but they remain as probable SARS).

In affected areas only those with atypical pneumonia and contact with SARS cases are probable SARS so a higher percentage are positive for the virus because a higher percentage actually have SARS and 15% of those with pneumonia and the virus die (China is lower, but that is either because the definition is different or they have a milder form of SARS).
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