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To: Henry Niman who wrote (111942)	8/18/2003 11:20:09 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<..."Obviously it's something that's really important for them. I mean, the whole world's going to be looking for the first fall outbreak of SARS - which is never going to occur," said Low, chief microbiologist at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital. "It's better that they work through this thing now than us trying to work through this thing in the middle of winter." The Surrey outbreak, which appears to be waning, is puzzling all the experts. While it spreads like wildfire in the closed setting of the nursing home - a characteristic of SARS - most of the patients and staff who have been struck have experienced only very mild cold-like symptoms. The severe part of severe acute respiratory syndrome has been mysteriously absent. By virtue of that fact, as well as the fact that disease investigators have found no obvious link to explain how SARS could have gotten into this facility, these patients don't fit the definition of the disease. But given the high attack rate - 103 of 142 residents, 48 of 160 staff - public health officials decided to test for the SARS coronavirus. As Dr. David Patrick, director of epidemiology at the B.C. Center for Disease Control, put it, they went looking for trouble. And they found it. ...continuded... > Given that we know that sars gets on the rampage very easily as proven in multiple situations, including the very places which are designed to defeat infections, and including the expert samurai warriors designated to fight them, such as Dr Urbani, it seems presumptuous to say that there isn't going to be an outbreak in autumn when there has just been one in summer. Mqurice PS: OOps, just realized I'm in the FADG stream, not the sars stream. Subject 53829 Sorry folks. Though, from a foreign affairs point of view, sars is a much bigger deal than Saddam and co and global relationships are going to be stressed and economic systems dislocated if sars returns with a vengeance as expected. Something about fighting humans instead of bugs is much more newsworthy and gets a lot more attention, though the bugs are wildly more successful in killing piles of us.