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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eosin the Red" data-source="post: 861456" data-attributes="member: 168">Varies but usually well over 20,000. Some of the BIGGIES have gotten up over a million. These figures are for the US alone - that is not a worldwide figure, I doubt that there are any reliable WW numbers. I use flu numbers to give people a wake up check when they have been watching too much "Fair and Balanced."This is the news fad of the week - next month it will be West Nile as mosquito season ramps up. SARS is nasty and we do not YET posses a herd immunity so it's first sweep will be fairly impressive (particularly among the immune compromised). After that first sweep, I suspect it will calm down to flu levels - that is what I expect for a worse case scenerio, we could get off much lighter.I like people talking about odds and medicine - alot of people ask me about odds. My uniform answer is "It does not matter what the odds of getting hit by a metorite are, if you are the person who was hit." SARS is new and we still don't know much but it does not seem panic worthy at this point. A Prudent and measured responce both from public health and private citizens will go along way in navigating this and the other inevitable new viral illnesses that rise from time to time.[ADDED<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /> It is my understanding that no healthcare worker who was prepared for a SARS patient and who MAINTAINED isolation protocol has been infected. We have not even see it be really virulent among our ED workers - who often do not realize that they are treating a possible SARS (or TB) patient until then event has come and gone.SARS in not a cold virus. Cold is rhino - SARS is corona. Corona until very recently was not believeed to infect humans. This is part of the concern about it. Lots of misinformation on this thread - speculate away but label it speculation. There really is not much of a need to inflame peoples fear of disease.Prudent and measured.....</blockquote>

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