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

To: RealMuLan who wrote (222)	4/22/2003 2:24:19 PM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4232

<So why WHO does not do more? Or whether it could do more?> If SARS were to move at some moment explosively out of Toronto or to start escalating in India for instance i think WHO has the power to request that all airflights in and out of epidemic areas and their borders be closed but the country must fulfill the request. If a breakout epidemic in Canada occured U.S. could quarantine Canada, close borders, so to speak; but you can imagine the politics in that one--whew. Max

To: RealMuLan who wrote (222)	4/22/2003 2:27:46 PM
From: Biomaven	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 4232

I'd appreciate it if we could limit discussion about whether the Chinese government is in any sense "to blame" for the spread of SARS. It really doesn't help us going forward in trying to figure out what will happen next. My own take for what it's worth is that given the Canadians didn't do a great job even though forewarned of SARS, it is unlikely that a second-world health system could have done much to prevent it at the beginning, before anyone knew that this was a new disease. Remember the symptoms are pretty much indistinguishable from some fairly common existing diseases like RSV pneumonia or even 'flu caused pneumonia. Peter