Looks like SARS will go to zero by month's end.

World Health Organization ^ | June 15, 2003 | StACase

[StACase]

The important statistic with regard to diseases such as SARS is, in my opinion, the number of active cases. WHO and News organizations don't report this stat. However, WHO since April 10th has reported total number of cases, deaths and recoveries from which the number active cases can easily be derived. So, if my Excel® generated chart of that data is correct, SARS will hit "Zero" active cases before the end of June.

[aristeides]

Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a common complication in rats with Sialodacryoadenitis (SDA) Coronavirus.

[aristeides]

why do three people in thesame building have different pneumonias?

If the effect of SARS is to make the immune system do screwy things, it could well lead to different kinds of infection. Mycoplasma pneumoniae and other secondary infections hit rats with SDA because the SDA throws their immune systems for a loop.

[Betty Jo]

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2003/05/29/2003053094

"Another study by the CDC revealed that other viruses such as chlamydia and Mycoplasma were showing up on tests done on probable cases."

[tracer]

Well, there goes at least a thousand budding scientific careers -- at a savings of billions for the US taxpayer....

[Betty Jo]

http://www.pulsemed.org/SARSupdate3.htm

under "SARS CURES"

"1.antibiotics to deal with the mycoplasma at the early stages of the disease"

That is saying that all SARS has myco at the beginning?
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eTiwan News May 28,2003 that I cant get to come up, says "A sampling of 32 reported pneumonia cases which tested negative for the SARS virus,found that 50% of them were caused by mycoplasma,36 %".... what is the rest of that?

[Betty Jo]

http://www.rense.com/general36/over.htm

[Betty Jo]

OOOps! Go down to "comments from Patrica Doyle"

[Betty Jo]

http://www.sarsreference.com/sarsref/tests.htm

"However,the possibility of dual infection must not be ruled out completely."

Perhaps the victim in North Carolina that has mycoplasma p. also has SARS?

Maybe the man who died will be found after the autopsy to have had myco?

Perhaps the sailors of the ship that were treated for myco actually had SARS?

[TaxRelief]

Rense again!

Amoy Gardens was conclusively spread because of a sewer system that was (inappropriately) venting into the bathrooms. Essentially virus particles were being sucked up into the air out of the sewer drain. Grotesque image, eh?

[Betty Jo]

Yeah, I know all about Amoy and poop.My question is how many SARS patients were misdiagnosed as having Myco P,instead of SARS?

I am asking this because the man in North Carolina ,not the Sars man, not the dead man , but the third man, supposedly does not have SARS, he has Myco p.

My question is isnt it high strangeness for 3 men in the same workplace to have pneumonia?

One SARS, one mycoplasma,one unknown as yet?

The import being how many myco P victims are /were really SARS?

[Betty Jo]

So I dont look so dumb, one site says myco is a virus, one says its a bacteria related organism,one says it has characteristics of both.

So, which is it?

Also, for my questions of is there massive misdiagnoses going on re SARS and Myco P., it dosnt matter.

[TaxRelief]

I have resorted to AOL, and I may be able to post at last! LOL!

Realistically, people get "walking pneumonia" all the time. Because of the panic over SARS, people may be inclined to rush to worry over a normal case of walking pneumonia. The dead man, who was only 45, is another story, but he was ill for a lot longer than the index SARS patient.

FYI, we are having a bizarre summer down here in NC. Last year we were in the 4th year of a drought and this year we are having so much rain, that mildew is growing on everything. The young corn has all turned yellow and no one can harvest their hay. This weather is reminiscent of 1816 (The year there was no summer).

People are more susceptible to respiratory infections when they have an excesses number of allergic reactions. And this mold and mildew is causing an unprecedented number of problems here.

[Betty Jo]

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/abs_news_body.asp?section=Metro&oid=18602

Scroll down to "Rare Pneumonia Virus Downs Filipino Seamen"

Why should I believe they didnt have SARS?

[blam]

"My question is isnt it high strangeness for 3 men in the same workplace to have pneumonia? "

I thought that was unusual also.

Why were posts 89, 90, 91 and 92 removed?

[blam]

"FYI, we are having a bizarre summer down here in NC. Last year we were in the 4th year of a drought and this year we are having so much rain, that mildew is growing on everything. "

We came out of our 4 year drought here in south Alabama this spring. We've been getting a lot of rain recently too.

[TaxRelief]

The only way to know if the seamen had SARS is with a test. At that time the major route to diagnosis was by "Exclusion". If nothing else tested positive, than it became a suspect case of SARS.

You have a good point. Once there is a really good, reliable test, there may be an opportunity to find out if people can have SARS and another disease concurrently.