[aristeides]

It sounds as if he recovered well. He may be young, he is certainly European. Both those factors could have played in his favor. More and more I suspect ethnic Chinese are peculiarly vulnerable to this disease.

[The Pheonix]

I notice ,while I was working in Hong Kong at one time that the Chinese hardly ever die from flu ,but lots of Europeans do

SARS infect only at close contact. SARS first started to infect in China.
Chinese people spread SARS to other Chinese thru close contact

The fact that hardly any caucasian gets SARS could mean that Chinese people hardly interact closely with caucausians