From: Samantha (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 00:10:05 MDT
On Tuesday 13 May 2003 05:33 pm, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> The SARS outbreak may serve to detail how we can get it
> wrong (the China cover-up) and get it right (the Vietnam,
> Singapore, perhaps Toronto -- crank down fast and hard).
>
> We will be lucky if the SARS genome turns out to be stable
> and we can relatively quickly develop a vaccine against it.
> As the HIV epedemic demonstrates -- we don't want to get
> it wrong -- and that includes not taking narrow-minded views
> of transmission routes that may be significantly different
> in various cultures.
>
That is the main thing I wanted to get across regarding SARS and the
effort of some to pretend it isn't real or dangerous. I got
side-tracked by Mr. Fumento being mentioned. Understandable
considering how many friends I have buried due to this
"non-infectious" disease. I am glad SARS is not sexually
transmitted (in particular). We would have several groups up in arms
about it being a disease of some to be shunned/despised subgroup
until it was nearly ineradicable if it was.
- samantha
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