[Mister Baredog]

AIDS kills everyone eventually so far, SARS kills 5.6% of the time, mortality rate stated by the CDC today.

[Fitzcarraldo]

AIDS kills everyone eventually so far, SARS kills 5.6% of the time

If there is no conferred immunity from surviving SARS, eventually it gets you.

[BunnySlippers]

And apparently SARS being successfully treated in countries like the US. It seems like there is an element of transmission that has to do with poor public sanitation.

[BOBWADE]

AIDS takes blood or sex to transmit, Sars can spread through the air or by touch so alteration of behavior won't control it. That is what is so serious about Sars.

[Malsua]

>>AIDS kills everyone eventually so far, SARS kills 5.6% of the time, mortality rate stated by the CDC today. <<

yeah, was gonna post that.

Aids eventually gets almost everyone. If you have vast wealth, you can get the high dollar cocktails that supress it like Magic does. He'll eventually go downhill though as the virus mutates and resists. Aids is essentially a death sentance...something Homos don't like to advertise. It just takes 7-10 years.

[technomage]

AIDS kills everyone eventually so far, SARS kills 5.6% of the time, mortality rate stated by the CDC today.

I do hope you are not trying to diminish the severity of this situation and the potential devastating effects this could cause.

Yes, SARS kills anywhere from 3-6% of those infected, compared to nearly 100% with AIDS. The problem with SARS is the extreme contagion. You catch it by breathing the air next to an infected person! Obviously much easier to be infected than AIDS. Without draconian measures, SARS has the potential to infect hundreds of millions around the world in the next few years.

With approximately 6 million dead per hundred million infected, this will cause extreme panic, economic turmoil. This is nothing to diminish. As contagious as this virus is, it could easily infect hundreds of millions just on the Asian continent alone.

The numbers above also assume no changes. If SARS mutates into something deadlier, the numbers go up. It is also possible that SARS could just burn itself out.

Right now this is an extremely serious situation and the numbers and severity of SARS cases is more than likely being under-reported.

Best we all keep on top of this, and boost our immune systems as much as possible, and do not make light of what is happening!!

We may be looking at massive quarantines of entire towns, cities, counties, countries. This situation could escalate out of control quickly. Let us hope that the Asian governments (and the Canadian gov) take massive measures to cut this thing off quickly.