[Judith Anne]

Thanks, MA. I wish "casual contact" were more clearly defined, I don't quite believe that it isn't (or couldn't be) spread by whatever "casual contact" is.

And I don't trust the statistics on the spread, either...normal regular yearly influenza pneumonia will kill a certain number of debilitated people every year...and WHO issues NO alerts about that which reach media attention...

Bonesmccoy you make the point that we may not hear anything more about this, but today, I'm not so sure...

[Mother Abigail]

RE: Contact

Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. and Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Ltd. each have one employee with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, the South China Morning Post said, citing the wife of one of the sick employees.

Rob Saunders, a Cathay Pacific flight engineer and a father of two, is the first victim of the outbreak to be publicly identified, the newspaper said. His children have been temporarily withdrawn from school as a precaution and are healthy, it said.

Not good