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Biotech / Medical : SARS and Avian Flu -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LTK007 who wrote (220)	4/22/2003 2:00:05 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 4232

>>This is the most serious emergence of a disease, with the exception of AIDS, in 50 years( when Polio was rampaging still).<< I generally agree. I guess nature has its way to punish mankind. And SARS virus can even exist in a dead body for 24 hours, amazing. >>if WHO had not immediately Quarantined that plane and set out its' highest emergency alert, this could be FAR worse right now, than it is--far worse.<< I am not sure about this. Guangdong started to quarantine people from late January, as soon as they realized this viurs is airborne. But the problem with SARS virus is: the virus can dormant on a healthy person for as long as 3 weeks, if not longer, without showing any symptom whatsoever, so quarantine helps, but won't eliminate the spreading of the disease. And another questions is how long to quarantine people, technically, have to be 3 weeks to say the least, but as far as I know, most countries only do 10 - 14 days. So that may very well why the disease keeps spreading all over the world. Do I think if China had made more publicity earlier (from Feb. when saw the sigh of epidemic) would help to control the spread of the disease to other countries? No, I don't think so. it would help Chinese gov. image for sure, but realistically, no one could tell who has the virus, and who has not, and no way they could forbid all the people in Guangdong to travel, and no one knows how long the virus could dormant on a healthy person for sure, and no one knows for sure how does the virus spread from one to another, and no one knows how long the virus could survive outside the human body, so it will spread out no matter what Chinese gov. did, or does. AIDS is much more difficult to pass on from one to another, but still thousands of people die from it today. So why WHO does not do more? Or whether it could do more? One thing for sure is that as the economic development destroys more and more natural environment, we will see more and more this kind of epidemic. No one's fault, it is all the devil's fault.

To: LTK007 who wrote (220)	4/22/2003 5:14:31 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 4232

Much more dangerous than AIDS because we all need to breathe, but don't need to have anal sex, blood transfusions, be polygamous women or their children. AIDS other than in Africa has a hard time finding ways into the human population. A South African doctor I know thinks African AIDS is due to many diseases causing lesions on genitals and enabling infection. I've always wondered about biting insects, but Moslems don't get it in Nigeria, so it seems a polygamous cultural thing, not insect-driven. Sars is much more dangerous because we mostly live in busy crowded cities and don't want to wear masks all the time, which are much worse than condoms sometimes. Mqurice