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Pastimes : SARS - what next?
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To: Ilaine who wrote (760)9/26/2003 7:24:56 PM
From: Henry Niman  Read Replies (1) of 1070
 
At least I got the right continent! I think the idea of some sort of ethnic (genetic) susceptibility had much more to do with where SARS originated than who was susceptible. Some of the misconceptions were probably driven by those using the logic of the poster of FR. He was drawing conclusions from names in Toronto newspapers and assumed that the publishing of the names was discontinued because it was politically correct. Of course the fact that anyone associated with SARS ran the risk of some pretty serious discrimination didn't seem to have entered his mind, nor did rules concerning patient confidentiality (which are much stricter in the US after passage of HIPAA laws).

However, now that the paper has come out, he thinks it is safe to eat in a Chinese restaurant (although there were no documented cases of transmission of SARS in the US outside of hospitals or care givers).
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