[Cicero]

I don't like to sound pessimistic, but I don't think there's a chance of stopping SARS from spreading around the world now. It's too late. We'd just better hope it isn't as deadly as it seems to be, or that its deadliness diminishes as it spreads from one person to another.

There's no way they can distinguish the symptoms among random airline passengers from ordinary colds or flu, and presumably for the first day or two after exposure there won't be any symptoms at all.

It's unlikely that they'll be able to develop any kind of vaccine until next year at the earliest.

[EternalHope]

I don't like to sound pessimistic, but I don't think there's a chance of stopping SARS from spreading around the world now. It's too late. We'd just better hope it isn't as deadly as it seems to be, or that its deadliness diminishes as it spreads from one person to another.

You nailed it.

[Domestic Church]

The idea of airport screeners for SARS is ridiculous. This will just allow it to spread under a false protective umbrella (until the screeners start getting sick.) The only sane way to handle this is quarantine and isolation. Once a certain number of cases has occurred in a locale, all travel has to stop until the situation is contained. Time for an extended old fashioned bankers holiday. Better sooner than later.