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All of this may seem like an overreaction to an illness that is not nearly as deadly as West Nile virus — SARS kills 3.7% of its victims, compared with West Nile's mortality rate of 6.7% last year — and evidently much less contagious than measles or even the flu. "It's the type of disease that seems to require a lot of direct close contact with somebody who's pretty sick," says Dr. Stephen Ostroff, deputy director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta.

from an article out of Time Magazine here's the link to the whole thing..... http://www.time.com/time/magazine/a...-441218,00.html

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April 10th, 2003, 10:30 AM	#24
kandeegirl2 Sweetness and Light Mod Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: jerzee :) again Photos: 29 Journal Entries: 3	All of this may seem like an overreaction to an illness that is not nearly as deadly as West Nile virus — SARS kills 3.7% of its victims, compared with West Nile's mortality rate of 6.7% last year — and evidently much less contagious than measles or even the flu. "It's the type of disease that seems to require a lot of direct close contact with somebody who's pretty sick," says Dr. Stephen Ostroff, deputy director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. from an article out of Time Magazine here's the link to the whole thing..... http://www.time.com/time/magazine/a...-441218,00.html __________________ Definition of love: the ability to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.