[Kuehn12]

I tired over all this panic, to my knowledge there has only about 60 to 100 cases which is as bas SARS. A disease by all account should have been the AIDS of the new century, but it was contained. Spreading needless panic serves no purpose, but to scare people. Worse yet it will become the "Boy who cried wolf" scenario. If a real pestilence came the response would be slower because people will remember bird flue, West Nile and be slow to believe them. The health were telling us that was going to be a pandemic. I being to believe that these people, government officials need a crisis to justify their existence.

[bitt]

hmmmmmmmmm....we are all tired of freak-outs ("rape and murder in the SuperDome!") but there ARE alerts worth noting and this looks like one of them.....epidemiologists have been dreading this scenario for several years now....

There is no sense in jumping out the window just yet, and skip these posts if you are not interested, but otherwise, wait and watch might not be such a bad idea....