Secret of SARS control: Follow those rumors

The International Herald Tribune ^ | Tuesday, June 3, 2003 | Thomas Crampton

[Bayou City]

"The most bizarre anonymous e-mail came from Beijing describing a mass evacuation of SARS patients from a hospital one hour before the visit of the WHO team," Muller said. "In the end, the report turned out to be absolutely true."

Amazing! Hate to post and run, will follow up later.

[Domestic Church]

Ping pong! Want to bet this Doc Muller reads FR?!

[_Jim]

Secret of SARS control: Follow those rumors

"Following rumors remains a very important task."

Ha ha ha ...

I wonder if those guys surf FR?

[Future Useless Eater]

"Often the key to figuring out the reliability of rumors involves bringing together information from many sources," Muller said.

Sounds a lot like what we do here at F.R.!

[IYAAYAS]

Word.

Very innovative, also very surprising. how un-bureaucracy like.

[IYAAYAS]

For the record, FR won't let me start new threads tonight. "They" must have gained control of the servers, all part of the conspiracy against me! Like the secret SARS threads...

[Future Useless Eater]

Come to think of it... we may very well found our secretive
"Mother Abagail" freeper who got us all fired up
researching SARS facts and rumors, with some incredible
insider info (or so it seemed).

She may be one of these paid professionals whose job it
is to track disease facts and rumors and connect-the-dots!

[Judith Anne]

Who knows? Anything is possible. Whatever, I'm very proud of what FReepers have accomplished, bringing together so much information.

[CathyRyan]

But do we really deal that much with rumor here? We get most info from published sources and then chew it up.

[CathyRyan]

Why are articles that use the keyword sars not showing up?

[Judith Anne]

Point taken, Cathy...

Maybe there weren't any new articles posted this morning...

[Judith Anne]

The search function worked okay for me...not sure what the problem could be.

[CathyRyan]

I did a search and this article did not show up there is one article about new kids.... and then one for the the 31 of May.

[Judith Anne]

I don't know, Cathy...I'm going to look around for some news for a while, I'll ping you if I find something.

[aristeides]

China Reports No New SARS Cases or Deaths .

[aristeides]

SARS is Over in Shanghai.

[aristeides]

China, WHO seriously differ over SARS figures .

[aristeides]

Sars found in pigs and snakes.

[aristeides]

SARS outbreak starting to 'tail off': But WHO could still slap travel advisory on Toronto again .

[theFIRMbss]

>Sars found in pigs and snakes

I remember when Mary Lou said
'You wanna walk me home from school'
And I said, 'Yes, I do'
She said, 'I don't have to go right home
And I'm the kind that likes to be alone
As long as you would'
I said, 'Me, too'

And so we took a stroll
Wound up down by the swimmin' hole
And she said, 'Do what you want to do'
I got silly and I found a frog
In the water by a hollow log
And I shook it at her
And I said 'This frog's for you'
She said...

'I don't like spiders and snakes
And that ain't what it takes to love me
You fool, you fool
I don't like spiders and snakes
And that ain't what it takes to love me
Like I want to be loved by you'

Well, I think of that girl from time to time
I call her up when I got a dime
I say, "Hello, baby'
She says, 'Ain't you cool'
I say, 'Do you remember when?
And would you like to get together again?'
She says, 'I'll see you after school'

I was shy and so for a while
Most of my love was touch and smile
Til she said, 'Come on over here'
I was nervous as you might guess
Still looking for somethin' to slip down her dress
And she said, 'Let's make it perfectly clear'
She said...

'I don't like spiders and snakes
And that ain't what it takes to love me
You fool, you fool
I don't like spiders and snakes
And that ain't what it takes to love me
Like I want to be loved by you'

Spiders and Snakes -- Jim Stafford