3,000 people may have been exposed to SARS

[MrDave]

3,000 people may have been exposed -- directly or indirectly -- to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

This is getting scary.

http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/ts.ts-03-27-0002.html

[daisy3600]

Makes me nervous!! I live in a pretty remote part of the country but all it takes is one person. I wash my hands when I come in from shopping or school and try to not rub my eyes too much. I've heard you had to be in pretty close contact with someone to catch it. Little consolation those who have suffered with it.

[warning]

It is sad. I know a lot of people that are worried. I work with a group that does a lot of international travel. it looks like they have found the cause. A cure would be better.


:cheer2: :cheer2: :cheer2:

[wdmouse]

We were told Tuesday morning that my uncle died from this, here in Arkansas. I have had a bronchitis like thing going on for about 3 weeks now and am kind of worried about this.
You guys be careful of who you come into contact with!

[Oldtimer]

Here is another link for SARS. It's from the University of Maryland

http://www.umm.edu/features/sars.html/?source=overture

I think they will get a handle on it before is spreads into the US.

[bbay23]

Originally posted by Oldtimer
Here is another link for SARS. It's from the University of Maryland

http://www.umm.edu/features/sars.html/?source=overture

I think they will get a handle on it before is spreads into the US.

I think I saw a news report that stated that there are about 30 cases in the US, but the story has taken a backseat to all the war coverage.

[Rapunzel676]

Oh great. I've been sick as a dog all week, this is all I need to hear!

[Scary Snarky toaD]

Yeah, this is NASTY -- I posted about it a few weeks ago -- as a med student been studying it quite a bit --

They THINK it may be a virus -- but still know almost nothing about it --

It spreads to others easily through sneezing and the like -- easy to get and acts like a lot of flus. It APPEARS this may be another "Animal virus suddenly learning how to jump to humans and infect them" type of thing which TENDS to incubate in places where typically pigs and farm animals live in close quarters with humans.

THE ONLY WAY WE KNOW HOW TO COMBAT IT AT PRESENT IS TO NOT GET IT. It takes about 10 days to "incubate" inside your body so you may have a hard time relating your illness to the fact a stranger sneezed or coughed near your face 10 days earlier -- [Visions of Michael Jackson -- maybe the masks aren't so silly after all].

The cold is a virus too, and we have no cure for it, so there may never be a "vaccine" etc. to "cure" anyone with it.

Why it is especially dangerous is that it forces the body to work too hard to get rid of it. The lungs end up filling with so much fluid to try to "flush" away the contagion that you "drown" in the attempt.

Plus, it is weird in that JUST WHEN you think you are getting BETTER, it grabs you again and takes you down the second time so hard you DON'T recover. Most people tend to try to get "back to work" as soon as they can, but if you do that with THIS flu, you could be gone. So you have to force yourself to still keep down and maybe do NOTHING for at least a week even though you're "feeling great."

Most of us won't "indulge" ourselves enough to do that -- but that may be the last decision you will get to make. This is SO SO SERIOUS it is worth extra caution.

Since so many people are flying back and forth from where this originated (Asia), any person you walk past might be a carrier and right now it's better for all reasons to KEEP YOUR DISTANCE from strangers anyway.

This is killing so many people because it isn't obviously NOT the flu, and people can't tell which one you have if you get it right away.

BE CAREFUL AND PLEASE STAY OUT OF CROWDS IF YOU CAN.