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TomB,
Thanks for the ping.

CDC is being very informative (not!).

Not one lick of mention of any of the serologies, case reports, etc.

It's a page with links to "press releases" which basically say nothing medical (other than if the patient has a fever and a cough, here's what you should do).

What a joke.

The backers of the UN are using this sorry story to attempt to look relevant.

We would be better off without the UN WHO and just Geberding running CDC (focused primarily on multilateral agreements with different nations).

Bones,

This is the best we have:

Transmission Sequence

The initial case on Feb. 26 was a man admitted to the hospital with it in Hanoi. By this weekend there had been 46 more cases reported in Vietnam. Two died and five are on ventilators. The original case, however, was transferred to Hong Kong, where he infected at least seven health care workers before he died Thursday. The day before, 20 health care workers in Hong Kong developed similar symptoms. By this weekend, more than 100 cases have been reported in Hong Kong alone.

Three people flew from Hong Kong to Singapore carrying the bug, and spread it to 16 more. A Singapore health worker flew to New York and on to Frankfurt, feeling unwell on the flight. German health officials placed this person in quarantine. Another person, who had been in close contact with the original case in Vietnam, flew from Hanoi to Bangkok and is hospitalized in Thailand, where no other cases were reported through Sunday. It is possible that Germany and Thailand both acted fast enough to prevent a further spread.

Lab Work

Lab tests have ruled out some varieties of flu as well as some viruses that cause hemorrhagic fever. However, many other possibilities remain, Heymann said.

Those include "a new strain of influenza" or such exotic diseases as the closely related Hendra and Nipah viruses - both newly recognized, causing flu-like symptoms and capable of being spread from animals to people.
"If it really is the flu, it could be we have a new organism that could cause a pandemic," said Dr. R. Bradley Sack, director of Johns Hopkins' international travel clinic.

Other

The Chinese said 7 percent of patients required breathing tubes, but most eventually got better, especially if they were not also infected with bacteria. The disease seemed to weaken as it passed from person to person.