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Looks like SARS will go to zero by month's end.
World Health Organization ^
| June 15, 2003
| StACase
Posted on 06/15/2003 6:48:38 AM PDT by StACase
The important statistic with regard to diseases such as SARS is, in my opinion, the number of active cases. WHO and News organizations don't report this stat. However, WHO since April 10th has reported total number of cases, deaths and recoveries from which the number active cases can easily be derived. So, if my Excel® generated chart of that data is correct, SARS will hit "Zero" active cases before the end of June.
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It looks like SARS should go to zero by the end of the month.
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posted on
06/15/2003 6:48:38 AM PDT
by
StACase
To: StACase
Unless another batch is released from a Peking Bio-weapons laboratory.
To: StACase; All
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posted on
06/15/2003 6:56:01 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Unless another batch is released from a Peking Bio-weapons laboratory.Where's your 'sarcasm' tag?
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posted on
06/15/2003 7:03:58 AM PDT
by
_Jim
To: _Jim
I wasn't aware that I needed one. Sarcasm is in the ear of the listener.
To: StACase
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posted on
06/15/2003 7:09:13 AM PDT
by
_Jim
To: StACase
... and when summer ends, it will pop right back up again.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Sarcasm is in the ear of the listener.Not, however, when comes to the too tightly-wound conspiro-loon crowd ... for that case and to point out the over-board reaction by some through an attempt at subtle sarcasm that skims close to being conspiracy-minded the rational among us created the 'sarcasm' tag to be *sure* the conspiro-loons comprehend the attempt ...
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posted on
06/15/2003 7:14:00 AM PDT
by
_Jim
To: KellyAdmirer
... and when summer ends, it will pop right back up again.How so?
Reseachers indicate that WARMER WEATHER represents the increased threat involving SARS ...
From: http://image.thelancet.com/extras/03art4453web.pdf
Finally the warm season has begun in Hong Kong, with daily temperatures now at 2530ºC. The seasonal risks of dengue and influenza will increase, and if serious outbreaks occur, they will complicate the triage of patients with possible symptoms of SARS. Thus, measures that can be taken now to limit further transmission, such as the shortening of the onset-to-admission interval, should be given high priority.
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posted on
06/15/2003 7:17:50 AM PDT
by
_Jim
To: _Jim
Basically, for some people, if there is too much rain, it will be a peking conspiracy to control the weather.
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posted on
06/15/2003 7:19:36 AM PDT
by
staytrue
To: StACase
Great! Just in time for West-Nile virus to flare back up!
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posted on
06/15/2003 7:19:54 AM PDT
by
Orangedog
(Soccer-Moms are the biggest threat to your freedoms and the republic !)
To: Orangedog; staytrue
Just in time for West-Nile virus to flare back up!I see a peking conspiracy to control the weather in order to to boost the mosquito population which can only further fuel the West Nile Virus 'crises' ...
</sarcasm>
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posted on
06/15/2003 7:23:12 AM PDT
by
_Jim
To: StACase
It was pretty clear that when SARS was first ID'd in Hanoi, and successfully contained with zero new cases (in one of the world's poorest countries), that it was not going to be a long-lived phenomena.
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posted on
06/15/2003 7:25:36 AM PDT
by
angkor
To: Orangedog
Two words: Insect repellent.
To: StACase
First US Sars Death?. Dr. Henry Niman of Harvard thinks the man who died in NC will turn out to have been a superspreader of SARS.
To: aristeides
thinks the man who died in NCAt this point in time he only 'thinks' the man hay have had SARS?
No positive test results - no confirming autopsy studies yet?
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posted on
06/15/2003 7:28:51 AM PDT
by
_Jim
To: _Jim
No confirming tests, yet. "I suspect" are the words Dr. Niman uses.
To: aristeides
Hmmm ... "I suspect" ... words awfully close to "an educated guess" but far from "positive proof" or "we know for a fact" ...
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posted on
06/15/2003 7:32:44 AM PDT
by
_Jim
To: _Jim
If it's an educated guess, it's an educated guess by Dr. Henry Niman.
To: _Jim
That's fine, we'll see what happens when the weather turns cooler again.
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