[hispanarepublicana]

Isn't Mother Abigail the name of the character in the Stephen King super-flu novel, The Stand?

If so, that's a REALLY creepy coincidence.

[Terriergal]

So how do they know for sure it's viral/bacterial and not fungal?

[Grand Old Partisan]

It could easily be a new disease. Mutated pathogens pop up all the time. And, several diseases prevalent many centuries ago seem to have died away completely.

[JeepInMazar]

Tests from respiratory specimens for influenza A and B virus, respiratory syncytial virus, enteroviruses, _Mycoplasma pneumoniae_ and _Chlamydia_ spp. by antigen enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and/or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) were all negative

I was just wondering exactly about this last night as I was laying in bed before falling asleep.

[texson66]

For an update on case numbers: WHO SARS DATA

[arasina]

There's a similar thread here on FR that is more easily understood:

Mysterious Asian Illness May Be Brand New Disease

[Kev-Head]

Brain Cell melt down here.

[CathyRyan]

New PorMED-Mail UPDATE


http://www.promedmail.org/pls/askus/f?p=2400:1001:150915020210750576::NO::F2400_P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1000,21008

[Lancey Howard]

Uh, so if you catch this, do you die?

[valkyrieanne]

Apparently this is nothing new in the Singapore / Malaysia area. This article is from May 2000 and mentions a paramyxovirus infection that infected 265 and killed 105 between 1998 and 1999. Apparently it was spread through pigs.