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To: kumar who wrote (97083)	5/1/2003 2:50:39 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The death rate for ordinary influenza is less than 1%, so, using the death rate for ordinary influenza in the US and multiplying by 10, which is the SARS death rate, that gives an annual death rate of 360,000, in the US only.

To: kumar who wrote (97083)	5/1/2003 3:24:31 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Kumar, when the numbers are large, it'll be too late. There are 300 million people in North America [leaving off Mexico]. Even if it's only 7% who die, that's a lot of people. 20 million. Maybe that's nothing to worry about - plenty more where they came from. I think this is a far bigger deal than Islamic Jihad, for which the USA gets very serious indeed [okay, goes nuts - fighter aircraft out to escort an aircraft when somebody lights a cigarette and objects to bossy-britches, lying, aircrew]. They should have fighter aircraft out to escort airliners with suspected sars viruses. Sars is a weapon of mass destruction to make Kim's nuke look a joke. Saddam's Yeti and Bigfoot seem to have hoofed it outa there. I think the WMDs escaped to Syria and Iran. Maybe Chechnya or Lebanon. Where in the World is Carmen San Diego or Saddam's weapons of mass destruction? The USA will have to go looking everywhere! Mqurice