Mystery Illness Thread (press Conference @ 1pm est.)

15 March 2003 | KickRightRudder

[KickRightRudder]

MSNBC reports mystery illness in Asia-kills every one infected so far. Hundreds more infected. Airlner to Toronto with infected man has been quarentined-- all passengers.

CDC is "EXTREMELY concerned". If these hundreds who are infected die in the next couple of days, we might have the beginnings of a panic. After sophisticated test doctors don't know what it is. Like flu or Pnemonia symptoms, except everybody dies. Press conference at 1pm.

[yoe]

Hit the button Now President Bush!

[NMC EXP]

I didn't say the overwhelming (and silent) majority of registered users on LF were neonazi sympathizers. Most probably they're not

Thanks for the clarification. The use of a logical fallacy is where I am coming from:

The Fallacy of Composition is to conclude that a property shared by a number of individual items, is also shared by a collection of those items; or that a property of the parts of an object, must also be a property of the whole thing. Examples:

"The bicycle is made entirely of low mass components, and is therefore very lightweight."

"A car uses less petrochemicals and causes less pollution than a bus. Therefore cars are less environmentally damaging than buses."

Regards

J.R.

[DBtoo]

So they did identify the one in Madagascar.

I did read this morning that they have not been able to identify this SARS; it is a real mystery. Not much new news about it today though.

[Cachelot]

So they did identify the one in Madagascar.

Well, sort of. They made a statement about a flu strain being "present" among some of the ill. But then again, there were several rather contradictory statements both before and after.

it is a real mystery

Yes. The latest is that there may also be a rash and diarrhea, apart from the respiratory thing.