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

To: Biomaven who wrote (781)	5/11/2003 5:53:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 4232

Peter, I suppose that if Respiratory Syncytial Virus produces only mild symptoms in adults, then the number of times per hour they sneeze, if any, is much less than if they were infected with a virulent rhinovirus or influenza where people sneeze 10 x per minute. That would slow the propagation rate and result in a peak in spring rather than earlier in winter. It seems that Sars, like AIDS, is easily stopped with a few masks and changes in behaviour, such as eating hot food in private rather than sneezed-on, or spoken-over, cold food in public with shared chopsticks and avoiding kissing strangers on the lips, or giving them a hongi [Maori nose-pressing and breath mingling]. Mqurice