Now what everyone was worried about is proably a true concern:
This:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,110039,00.html
Saturday, January 31, 2004
BEIJING — China's Health Ministry on Saturday announced a new confirmed case of SARS (search), but said the patient has already been discharged from a hospital.
The man is the fourth confirmed SARS case announced in China this season.
The man, identified as a 40-year-old doctor from Guangzhou, the capital of southern Guangdong (search) province, had been released "recently," the official Xinhua News Agency said, without specifying when.
playing friendly with this:
http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/feature/content_objectid=13898172_method=full_siteid=50002_headline=-When-health-is-a-global-issue-name_page.html
snip:
And now the deadly avian, or chicken flu virus - the latest health crisis - has claimed its first victim in Thailand. The killer bug was initially discovered in Vietnam, and has already led to six deaths there, while there have been confirmed outbreaks in South Korea, Japan, Cambodia and Pakistan.
Experts are predicting a major world health crisis and point to last year's major health scare - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) - which killed 800 people and hospitalised a further 8,000 after an outbreak in China spread throughout Asia and on to Europe and North America.
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there might be all sorts of people with wrong thinking about, and there might be many who care nothing about their soul or what they do to others spirit, and faith, but
these little bugs are not people they are, they just are...
(fair use snip)
Mystery Disease Spreads Fear, Grief in Bangladesh
Tue January 27, 2004 04:13 AM ET
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By Nizam Ahmed
GOALANDO, Bangladesh (Reuters) - A mystery disease that has killed at least 14 people in Bangladeshi villages is spreading grief and fear but one doctor treating victims said Tuesday the outbreak might have peaked.
A mother in one village wept as she told how her two sons had been quickly struck down by the disease, which authorities believe is not the bird flu sweeping many other parts of Asia.
"I lost them within 48 hours, before I could do anything to save them. I did not know they might be infected by a deadly disease," said Asma Begum in Goalando village, 75 miles southwest of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka.
Government health officials say the disease has broken out in a string of villages in northern and southwestern districts, killing at least 14 people. Newspapers put the death toll at 19.
Nearly 60 people have caught the sickness, a disease control official in Dhaka said.
But experts have said the disease, which produces high fever, headache, vomiting and spells of unconsciousness, is like nothing they have seen. Samples have been sent to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control for analysis.
Dr Jahangir Hossain, an expert at the International Center for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh, said the "symptoms suggest the disease could be encephalitis."
UNDER CONTROL?
Doctors at a hospital in Goalando village said they had treated dozens of people with symptoms of the mystery disease over the past week. "One has died, 16 are still in being treated while the others have gone home," said Dr. Sakhawat Ali.
Ali said the worst of the outbreak might be over.
"The situation seems to be under control now as we are not getting new patients," he said.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=4214946