WHO today adds US to short list of "SARS affected areas"

Not only does this make the US come under a lot of SARS warning travel advisories, it 'may' make access to AUSTRALIAN hospitals impossible except for outright emergencies for American tourists because the Australians have locked the hospital doors to those from SARS "affected areas" (Now, that includes us.)

OK, I give up. Who adds us to the list?

WHO- WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
LINK- http://www.who.int/csr/sarsareas/2003_04_16/en/

Do you have a source and a link for this information?

Every country in the world will make the "short list" for SARS before long.

Well, maybe Congo won't. But they're on the short list for Ebola.

Last I've checked, the US has 200 cases, but no deaths.
I've also heard that most of these 200 may have been misdiagnosed as SARS.

Oh, yes you do.
Thanks.

Aussies Close Hosp to Sars exposed
http://www.themercury.news.com.au/c...255E421,00.html

No, Who's on first base.

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AUSTRALIAN HOSPITALS CLOSED TO "SARS AFFECTED NATION "TRAVELERS FOR ALL EXCEPT EMERGENCIES

http://www.themercury.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6298462%255E421,00.html

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Hospital ban on SARS travellers
By Mandi Zonneveldt
17apr03

AUSTRALIANS who travel to SARS-affected countries will be banned from getting hospital treatment except in an emergency.

Chief Medical Officer Professor Richard Smallwood said people returning from some parts of Asia and Canada would be deferred from elective hospital treatment for 10 days after their return.
"The majority of transmission of SARS around the world has been in hospitals," he said.

"We have decided to take this added precaution to ensure we don't put a potentially infected person into the hospital system who doesn't urgently need to be there."

Those who travel to countries affected by the disease have already been banned from donating blood until a fortnight after their return.

But the Government has stopped short of calling for those returning from China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam and Toronto, Canada, to stay home from work or school.

"It is suggested that returned travellers should monitor their health for at least

10 days and if they become ill with fever, cough or have difficulty in breathing, they should immediately leave work or school and seek medical attention," Professor Smallwood said.

"The guidelines do not suggest that people who are feeling perfectly well be excluded from work or school."

But principals at many Victorian schools have already advised parents that their children will not be allowed to return to school immediately after the Easter break if they have travelled to SARS-affected countries.

There were no new suspected cases of SARS in Australia yesterday.

Six people remained under investigation by health authorities, including three children from Canada who developed symptoms while visiting their grandparents in Shepparton.

Overseas, the SARS death toll climbed to 154, with more than 3200 infected. The latest deaths include a 32-year-old in Hong Kong -- the youngest person yet to succumb.

International scientists have used monkeys to confirm that SARS is caused by a new form of coronavirus -- the same bug responsible for the common cold.

Preliminary findings showed that monkeys developed an illness resembling SARS after the coronavirus was put in their nostrils.

Verifying the cause of the disease is essential for the development of reliable diagnostic tests and a vaccine.

But health experts say the secret to the genesis of the disease rests with the Chinese Government.

World Health Organisation spokesman Dr David Heymann said China's records were the key to knowing whether SARS would become a persistent infectious disease such as malaria.

"The jury is still out on whether this will occur, and that depends a lot on understanding what is going on in China," he said.

China yesterday opened the doors of two military hospitals that WHO officials had previously been prevented from entering. The hospitals are believed to be treating many SARS patients.

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You might have this one already, but here goes: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Report of Suspected Cases Under Investigation in the United States

Stay home and lock the doors. Ther's plenty to see on TV.

Why do people need to travel so much anyway, the Internet made business travel almost obsolete and who wants to go someplace foreign where the food makes you sick and the water makes you sit?

Like Dorothy said "There's no place like home".

No, Who's on first base.

Well, at least someone got it.