SARS - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

[YerbaMateJ]

Has anyone heard of this spreading disease yet? It has killed 64 people so far and they think it started in Asia. It's going across the globe due to international travel. Fever, cough, chills, headache, body aches, insufficient oxygen to the blood. Very contagious. I gotta go, so add some info comrades. This does not sound too good

YMj

[Larissa]

http://www.clarin.com/diario/hoy/um/m-538886.htm


(Edited by Larissa at 9:49 pm on April 1, 2003)

[hazard]

Yes, SARS is partially responsible for the closure of two hospitals in Toronto, Ontario. There are also thousands quarantined across the province as this is being written.

I say partially responsible because of the state of the health care system in the province. This is the other responsible factor. Due to fascist, right wing, health care cuts that number close to ten billion dollars of cut spending, this virus has become virtually uncontainable. Way to go Harris. Now he knows why Chretien said, and I quote " Don't touch healthcare ".

And the provinces response to he social critics? A goddamn call in centre. Oh yeah, call the line and "real" nurses can give you help over the phone. I guess its cheaper than actually putting that money where it belongs. In the hospitals.

[YerbaMateJ]

Yeah---- Money is the root of all evil and all that--- but what the hell is this? Common cold----even pneumonia symptoms are treatable---What the hell is this? The scientist that actually was able to identify the illness DIED from it. What the fuck is this?

[Gidoot]

Every body thinks we are God.
But the fact is that we can't stop diseases because every time there will be new ones.

[Wolfie]

Well it seems bad, i hope they catch it soon, what with the war taking up all the air time im not sure how dangerous this will/can be.

[Lefty]

Hmm...this doesnt sound cool. What can be done to cure it?

[Felicia]

Yeah, SARS has just spread to atlantic canada. And there are several cases reported in P.E.I. It's only a matter of time before it's in Nova Scotia, and I'm kinda worried about it :(

[Eastside Revolt]

You can pretty much count me dead once it hits my town. I have had mneumonia 5 times in my life.

Actally it's more like 3 times the other two times were nmeumonia-like symptoms without the fever.

(Edited by redcanada at 12:16 am on April 3, 2003)

[Felicia]

Quote: from redcanada on 8:11 pm on April 2, 2003
You can pretty much count me dead once it hits my town. I have had mneumonia 5 times in my life.
oh wow, becareful! It's already out west, in BC I think :(

[El Barbudo]

I dont know why, but SARS went everywhere in Canada except in Quebec. Guess we are too cool for getting asian pneumonia. :) Nah seriously, be careful folks...

[hazard]

ANybody else notice how the americans are so far denying any cases of sars? I mean with the longest undefended border in the world between Canada and them you'd think that just one case would be reported.

Those lying SOBs are just covering they're sorry asses. They know that if sars is reported in their country, because everybody knows they got it too, their war effort is just gonna plummet. Lying pigs.

[Dhul Fiqar]

There's not a lot of it around, folks, so don't worry. There are very little odds you'll even know anyone affected by it in any way.

I live in China, where the vast majority of the cases have been reported. We also have about 1.2 BILLION people here, and what, a couple of hundred cases? I think there are less than a thousand cases in the whole world so far!

I'm more worried about being hit by a car or something...

--- G.

[Spartacus2002]

i am so sick of sars, all day long all i hear up hear in canada is sars this sars that....god its annoying after a while..

[ID2002]

Its 25% fatal. So, yeah..your going to hear a lot about it. It s odd that this disease just so happens to pop up during a war. hummm, could it be a bio engineered virus?

....it quite possiable.

[Pete]

There is a higher survival rating for SARS than for Pnemunia I read in the Toronto Star and CBC a few days back.

[Eastside Revolt]

[quote]Quote: from redcanada on 12:11 am on April 3, 2003
You can pretty much count me dead once it hits my town. I have had mneumonia 5 times in my life.

Actally it's more like 3 times the other two times were nmeumonia-like symptoms without the fever.

(Edited by redcanada at 12:16 am on April 3, 2003)
[/quoute]

I feel like an idiot now that I know it isn't too bad, of a sickness.

[Dhul Fiqar]

Quote: from ID2002 on 3:25 am on April 6, 2003
Its 25% fatal. So, yeah..your going to hear a lot about it. It s odd that this disease just so happens to pop up during a war. hummm, could it be a bio engineered virus?

....it quite possiable.


Why would GuangDong province in China be the first target of such an attack??

I think 90% of the cases are in Guangdong and Hong Hong. There are like 2000 cases worldwide so far, making the chances of catching it (even for those of us living in the country where it's actually raging, as opposed to where a couple of cases have been detected') is infinitely small. At this rate there are literally more people going to be killed by lightning this year than SARS.

I recommend the book "Culture of Fear" by Barry Glassner, he explains in good detail how society has a totally unrational risk assessment mechanism. We fear totally freakishly unlikely things like terrorism and virulent new diseases, while every day things like known diseases and car crashes kill us off in droves.

--- G.

[Dhul Fiqar]

I just saw a story on CNN that amazes me. Many Indian families in Hong Kong are now leaving their homes and going back to India, because there have been no SARS cases there!

My dad was there a few days ago and wrote to tell me he saw people dead and dying of leprosy and other mideval diseases, even close to major buildings and fine neighbourhoods. Thousands uppon thousands of people die there every day from diseases that haven't appeared in Hong Kong for decades.

Like I said, Culture of Fear :(