From: Karen Rand Smigrodzki (karen@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 14:04:36 MST
The WHO website gives daily updates of this and other infectious diseases.
>From Feb 1, 2003 to today, March 18, 2003, 219 cases are known and only 4
have died.
http://www.who.int/csr/sars/tablemarch18/en/
---Karen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Damien Broderick" <damienb@unimelb.edu.au>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 10:52 PM
Subject: SAR plague
>
> >crossposted from cryonet:
> >>From Mgdarwin@cs.com Mon Mar 17 23:49:28 2003
>
> >This is a warning of a possible near term pandemic which may be highly
> >lethal and result in serious disruption of civil order and normal daily
life.
>
> CNN adds:
> ...................................................
>
> The CDC "is advising persons traveling on nonessential or elective travel
> to affected areas that they may wish to postpone their trips until further
> notice," Dr. Julie Gerberding, the agency's director, said in a rare
> Saturday news conference.
>
> Cases of the form of pneumonia, dubbed severe acute respiratory syndrome
> (SARS), have been reported in Canada, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, the
> Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
>
> ====================
>
> How I hate it when my sf predictions are so horrible close to the mark.
> Just today, my co-writer Rory Barnes and I signed contracts with eReads
for
> our new sf novel THE HUNGER OF TIME. It's been in the works for a couple
of
> years, and opens with rumors of the terrible new post-Jihad war
> `Philippines plague', the Manila Flu, which all but obliterates humankind
> within several years, precipitating a botched military-backed Singularity.
> Let's hope this time our uncanny guess is *not* correct.
>
> Damien Broderick
>
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