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Pastimes : SARS - what next? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Maurice Winn who wrote (592)6/25/2003 1:23:02 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1070
 
>>They'll be immune and since they survived, they are obviously very immune now.<<

The odds are that this is not the case, due to the extreme mutability of the SARS Co-V. It's an RNA virus, not DNA, so it mutates a *lot.*

It's like the virus that causes the common cold. Most people catch colds once or twice a year, because the virus keeps mutating.