[per loin]

This has been my concern for some time, as some of you may recall, that the coming fall and winter will show us the true face of SARS, unmasked (so to speak).

I'm hoping that you are wrong, that this is its face, but I'd not bet money against you on it.

[Judith Anne]

I'm concerned.

I could be wrong, of course. It may die out this spring and summer, and never be heard from again...it may be one of the myriad viruses that hit the radar and go away...leaving the world more or less as it found it.

Garden variety flu is bad enough.

[Judith Anne]

Just re-reading some of the articles:

Over 20 million died worldwide in a single year from the flu, in 1918. 20 million in the US caught the disease, and over 850,000 US citizens died in ONE year! I am so amazed that scientists are as alarmed as they are...Did you see the doctor who had SARS and recovered, from Toronto, on O'Reilly tonight? He had what he called a mild case...didn't sound too mild to me. If that's MILD SARS, then the severe cases must really be devastating.

I hope it goes away.