[aristeides]

Reed was in his mid-40's, and was from Wake County. This story may further indicate that he was already suffering from heart problems: Men's blood tests negative for SARS virus : Wake man dies of heart failure, pneumonia; Orange man cleared of disease .

[harpseal]

Within the recesses of my memory was a post from a NC freeper who worked at ininsurance company who was talking of cases not characterized as SARS where all the symptoms were consistent with SARS. He/she and I think it was a she stated she worked at an HMO we could just be seeing the tip of the iceberg that we may be about to hit but CDC is speading smoke to obscure our vision.