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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (6029)	4/6/2003 10:12:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12229

* SAR Wars * The bug is continuing to gain ground. They are having trouble rounding it up. The mutation rate is increasing. I thought we'd won a few weeks ago. Maybe not. <5 April 2003 As of today, a cumulative total of 2416 SARS cases and 89 deaths have been reported from 18 countries. This represents an increase of 63 cases and 5 deaths compared with yesterday > The daily infection rate isn't dropping but at least it's not increasing rapidly. In the USA there are, on 4 April, 115 cases being investigated. No deaths reported. That's pretty good going! What is different from Hong Kong to get such a good survival rate? Mqurice EDIT... the bug is moving faster than my fingers... asia.reuters.com <Hong Kong hospitals prepared for a worst-case scenario of up to 3,000 cases of the deadly SARS virus by the end of April, as the pneumonia-like disease claimed yet another victim in Canada. New cases in Hong Kong climbed by 42 on Sunday to 842. Hospital Authority chairman Leong Che-hung said in an interview with a local television station there would be sufficient manpower and facilities to deal with up to 3,000 patients, although intensive care units would be under pressure. In Singapore, where infection numbers are fourth highest in the world, its prime minister warned that growth targets for this year would have to be revised downward because of the outbreak of the disease, which has killed 95 people around the globe. The latest victim was from Canada, bringing to nine the death toll in the country. Infections have risen to 179 in the province of Ontario, which has the bulk of cases. Canada has the world's third highest infection total. Globally, cases exceed 2,600....>