[TrappedInLiberalHell]

mystery illness that has killed 12 people and sickened more than 400 worldwide.

Hasn't it been one to two weeks since this story started getting significant coverage in America? And in that time, only a few more people have died. It doesn't seem like the kind of illness that has a big 'pandemic' potential. I hope so. The only family I have left (sister and dad), both have chronic health problems. And my mother died ten years ago, from pneumonia (resulting from the immune disease Lupus).

[Mother Abigail]

Many of the 400 hundred people still alive are in ICU's, many in serious or critical condition, releases of patients has been very slow, the outcome is still in question...

[Mother Abigail]

Pneumonia claims another victim in Vietnam
Worldwide death toll from SARS rises to 22 with hundreds of people sick in hospital


March 24, 2003, 15:30

A Vietnamese nurse has died from a fast-spreading pneumonia virus, bringing the worldwide death toll from the disease to 22 with hundreds of people sick in hospital. The latest deaths include three in Hong Kong, officials there said.

Doctors at the Vietnam-France Hospital, where the outbreak in Vietnam's capital began, said a 43-year-old Vietnamese nurse who worked at the facility and who was one of three patients there in critical condition, died this afternoon.

The illness, called severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), killed a Vietnamese nurse from the same hospital on March 15 and a