[aristeides]

Later report: Ottawa investigates nurse for possible SARS. The Toronto woman came to the Ottawa ER on May 14, when SARS was supposedly nonexistent in Toronto. The woman is only a "suspected" case, but, if she really has SARS, I wonder how she caught it in Toronto. If she's a Toronto health-care worker (or a member of the family of a Toronto health-care worker,) would she be going to an ER in Ottawa?

[per loin]

If the Canadians had paid closer attention to the course of the epidemic in Hong Kong, they might have been much slower to post their "all clear" notices. Almost a month ago (May 4) HK got down to single digits in daily cases. Since then, on every day except one they have recorded a few new cases. Unfortunately, I've not seen any detailed reporting on the transmission paths of these new cases, but the implications for how difficult it is to get to "all clear" are obvious.

[InShanghai]

There is tons of speculation that this is a bioweapon. How sure are you on this and what caused you to conclude that it actually is a bioweapon?

From all of the data that I've seen, it's very likely a virus that has mutated and passed on from animals to people. Has the possibility of this just passed over everyone's heads?