[Jim Noble]

This is the PM updated page for today, but there still isn't much to see other than what you can find in the newspapers.

It is interesting that cases are blooming along travel routes so quickly-must be short incubation, which might imply a large inoculum is being generated.

Interesting stuff-the "high mortality" seems to be a false alarm.

[bonesmccoy]

Hi Jim,
I was going to start that BT thread last night, but got too tired from monitoring the Iraqi threads.

We need to start a technical BT thread where we compare the contagion, rapidity of diagnosis and targetting of the population. We should be able to evaluate various pathogens in the context of the WHO idiocy.

We can probably piece together the story from international sources.

[bonesmccoy]

re: high-mortality

there are probably tons of people with the infection, but only a few are getting this ill.

This is commonly seen in initial waves of infection.