X-Message-Number: 21420
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 14:13:34 -0700
Subject: SARS contagion (was URGENT HEALTH WARNING)
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From:  (Tim Freeman)

Mike Darwin said in Cryonet message 21416:

>2) SARS is *extremely* infectious; those physicians treating it in Hong Kong 
>report that it is about as infectious as influenza. 

In contrast,
http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2003/03/18032003162937.asp quotes
Iain Simpson of the World Health Organization's communicable disease
section as saying:

>"It's not clear how contagious this infection is. What is clear is
>that this is not like the flu, where you can just pick it up by being
>in a room with someone or by being on a bus with someone. To catch
>this infection, it's quite clear that you have to have close contact
>with someone who is infected and that, even then, you won't
>necessarily become sick yourself," Simpson said, adding, "This is
>nowhere near as infectious as a cold."

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Tim Freeman                                                  
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