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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 862045" data-attributes="member: 6390">Sorry about the offense. That was not meant to be a "Ha-Ha!"The thing that worries me about it, is the nurse or doctors in America and other advanced nations are careful.Ever been to some of these countries where the healthcare workers don't even wash thier hands? SARS will LIKE them, and like them a lot.Thanks for reiterating it for my sake that not one healthcare worker who followed isolation protocols and decon standards has contracted SARS. It allows me to reply:Healthcare workers are human. They make mistakes. Accidents happen. You would come into contact with it far more than your average person. Including contaminated tissue, blood and material samples. The reason I say "It LIKES healthcare workers" is simple: Not all hospitals and clinics follow strict biocontamination procedures. Until this changes, it will continue to like healthcare workers.While it is true that there are a lot worse diseases out there (Lassa Fever comes to mind, right off the bat, along with those diseases that crop up from time to time, kill 10-100 people in some 3rd World pesthole, and vanish, never even being named) this one is dangerous.Sorry, but it would make a good bioweapon. It lasts for awhile outside a human host, easily mutates to fight treatment steps, burdens the medical system, causes panic (since cold or flu symptoms could be taken as an onset) and would cause the enemy to move battelfield medicine resources to the infected area. It's almost tailormade.Yes, masks will decrease your total contamination load, but for the most part, people don't know how to wear masks, haven't been trained in the proper way to put one on, keep it in effect, and how long they can wear it.Personally, I'm not sure how far this will go, and wonder what will happen when it gets to the weakened immune system population, and what the next mutation will be.As for getting my figures from the National Equirer...No.Don't be insulting.Smallpox wouldn't even be close, even if it did get out of Africa or out of some lab. I've been immunized against it, and so has a signifigant part of the world population. We could immunize again if we chose to.Honestly, trying to predict what a disease does is like trying to predict anything in life. It doesn't work easily. Some say that if a major metroplotian area got something nasty like Bubonic Plague or Lassa Fever or Denge Fever in the six-digit area.::shrug::Honestly, I'll worry when the disease is in more than 40 geographical locations and the CDC/WHO containment teams are scrambled...Until then, I'm going back to playing D&D and worrying about the real world in my spare time.</blockquote>

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