[Judith Anne]

One of the things I remember reading recently is that poor farmers who donate blood to supplement their income were routinely subjected to HIV infected needles. There's a lot of HIV in rural areas of China directly related to the practice of selling blood with dirty collection technique.

So I wouldn't be surprised to learn that SARS has been transmitted that way. In whatever way the virus can get around, it does so in China...

[Judith Anne]

Should read, "...poor CHINESE farmers who donate blood..."