[AntiGuv]

This would be consistent with the earlier reports that it may be a "chlamydia-like" agent, although chlamydia itself evidently encompasses an airborne variation as well. I have no medical expertise whatsoever and I'm by no stretch qualified to evaluate anything of this sort, really. This is just my random observation.. ;)

[Jim Noble]

I'm spending almost all of my online time with the war, BUT

Chlamydia come in sexually-transmitted and non-sexually transmitted types. The most prevalent non sexually transmitted species is Chlamydia pneumoniae which, as you might imagine, causes pneumonia.

Since the "case definition" of SARS will capture large numbers of pneumonia cases who don't really have SARS, it's not surprising that some cases of pneumonia caused by Chlamydia pneumoniae are showing up.

What this has to do with STDs is-nothing.

The evidence that a novel virus, probably a coronavirus, is the singular cause of SARS is quite strong.