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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 861486" data-attributes="member: 8461">I'm only a few hours away from Tokyo, where there have been some cases already, so I'm slightly wary of going back to that city, and I'm constantly getting reminders from home to be careful about the disease (they're more worried for me than I am).It's true that there are a lot of other diseases that kill more people than this, but for the most part, we in first-world countries have little to worry from those, since we have better facilities and resources. You can't really compare SARS to Malaria in terms of how likely someline like myself is to die from one or the other. I don't live in Africa, and I've had Malaria immunization (at least, I'm pretty sure that was one of the diseases that those shots you get when you're a kid innoculate you against). SARS is different. It's highly contagious, and its not confined to any particular region.One thing that is worth noting is that people who catch this disease can, and do, recover. In fact, most recover, since the death toll attributed to this disease is far, far below the total number infected. That website seems somewhat outdated I think though...I read a newspaper here recently that said there were almost 800 dead total after China stopped suppressing some outbreak information due to Parliamentary elections.It's probably best not to worry too much, and just clean up after yourself, wash hands a lot, etc. I know I'm going to be wearing a mask on the flight back to America, since the plane may or may not have stopped in China first.</blockquote>

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