[CathyRyan]

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Doing the Rocky Dance at the top of the steps

It took me about four and a half hours to find the one post.

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[Dog Gone]

It seems possible to me that infected people who are not yet showing symptoms are indeed contagious, but not at their peak in terms of danger to others.

Someone may not have developed the dry cough that is probably the biggest culprit in spreading the virus, but people who are not ill often cough and sneeze everyday over some minor irritant. These "routine" expulsions of air could very well be laced with the virus, and nobody thinks a thing about it.

[EternalHope]

Study: SARS Virus Can Live for 3 Days on Plastic is directly on point to the "when contagious" issue.

To quote the article ("Hong Kong researchers"):

Many of those who recently caught the disease in the city are believed to have picked it up from other hospital patients before the latter showed obvious SARS symptoms.

[Prince Charles]

To make life easier in the future, I added the keyword "asymptomatic" to that thread. ;-)