[Dog Gone]

The interesting thing is that the SARS virus doesn't kill you. What kills you is your own immune system trying to fight the virus in the lungs. That's why steroids are the prescribed treatment.

It's entirely possible that someone with a lousy immune system (like someone with AIDS) might do well.

[Judith Anne]

If so, it will quickly be apparent that the virus will just keep multiplying in the HIV positive patient's lungs, and possibly elsewhere in the same body, and while there may be no symptoms, the person could become what we have been calling a "superspreader"--full of virus, no immune response--few symptoms...Eventually, the virus would overwhelm the patient...

This is just complete speculation on my part. Anyone who knows anything different, please correct me...