[Vigilant1]

If SARS is spread by cockroaches, as this article suggests, efforts to contain its spread, especially in urban areas, are doomed to failure.

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[woofie]

Cockroches are the master race

[Dog Gone]

We must educate people to quit licking cockroach trails.

[LaineyDee]

Hmmmmmm. Chinese cockroaches that escaped from a bio-warfare lab?

[DBrow]

There are pesticides effective in controlling cockroaches. We could bring back DDT and Chlordane for a few years, to contain infection.

We used to use DDT to control mosquitoes in malaria areas- saving millions. With the ban, malaria deaths are up and are still rising. Now we have another insect spread killer, apparently.

Will the fear of SARS override the environmentalist's decrees?

(Hint- how many times did Gore speak of the need to control global population?)

[CyberAnt]

Well ... I read here on FR about a group of Russian scientists who say SARS is a combination of Measels and Mumps. It was combined synthetically, and released accidentally; in China.

I don't know why - but I tend to believe this.

[samtheman]

All other reports link the spread to coughing. It is, after all, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

This article might be cockroach do-do.

[TheLion]

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[John Twenty 28]

Julie L. Gerberding, the CDC's director, said it was still too early to draw a final conclusion about the cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome.

"We are increasingly confident we are dealing with a new coronavirus," she said. But she added, "While we've seen evidence of the virus and we've seen evidence of pneumonia, we haven't seen them both in the same tissue."

This suggests the following to me:

1. They've looked at lung tissue affected by SARS pneumonia and haven't found an infection, bacterial or viral.

2. The lung damage may be caused by toxin created elsewhere in the body by the SARS infectious agent.

This (2) isn't unheard of in nature, but at least raises the possibility of genetic engineering as the source of the infectious agent.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

The theory might be accurate, except for that American co-worker who came down with it yesterday...she got it from one of the workers.

[Vigilant1]

In all cities everywhere, coackroach infestations are endemic. When cockroaches feed on people's food, they may infect it with SARS, then the infection is passed to humans. And think about infants loose in the average cockroach-infested low-income urban household, what they find on the floor & eat, and how they crawl using their hands, and then put their hands in their mouth. Once the cockroaches have infected one person, the spread of SARS in their family, their group of friends, their apartment building, their workplace, the shopping malls they visit, movie theaters, etc., is just about assured.

You guys can joke about this all you want, but I hope you're not too thick to see what a potent infection vector coackroaches will be for the SARS virus. There have been no SARS deaths in America yet because the most serious cases can be kept alive on respirators. What happens when the infection spreads and we run out of respirators? People start dying. And when the hospital staffs and doctors get infected, there is the potential for a collapse of our health care system.

GW has signed an EO granting martial-law-like powers to the fedgovthugs for quarantene purposes (I understand the necessity for this). When people panic and refuse to obey, those orders will have to be backed up by guns and riot-control methods. I don't think we really grasp what kind of disaster could be unfolding before us.

And thanks to Nita for the toliet aerosol cloud info. I keep a can of Lysol on my toliet; now a squirt goes into the bowl and the lid gets closed before every flush.

[CJ Wolf]

THEY ARE WRONG

[Brian S]

Just to note: My dogs are vaccinated yearly for some type of coronavirus.

[tutstar]

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