[Dog Gone]

They could, but I don't think they will. The cat's out of the bag there, and it's not going back in.

Even China can not successfuly minimize the problem forever. There is simply too much contact between China and the rest of the world to keep a story of this magnitude under wraps. They are still trying to manage the story as a public relations matter, but the damage only gets worse as their credibility continues to plummet.

[EternalHope]

If Hong Kong cannot control SARS, and so far they cannot, then how likely is it that the rest of China will do any better?

No matter how hard the other nations of the world try, SARS will eventually find its way into the slums of the world's mega cities.

What happens when SARS is running through the slums of Mexico City? What happens to the United States when millions of Mexicans flee north across the border?