I won't say it's obvious.
A disease can effect the economy directly, because the people who work are part of the economy.
So if SARS would (which I don't think it will, but another disease may) put really alot of people out of work that would effect the economy directly.
It's OK to travel to Toronto according to the WHO. The magnitude of probable SARS cases there decreased. In Beijing SARS is still spreading. According to the WHO, 354 people have died worldwide from SARS.
Although no Indian has died from SARS, the country with the most paranoid reaction after Singapore has to be India.
Air India pilots have been fired for refusing to fly to SARS affected areas and refusing to work with those who flew to SARS affected areas.
Whole neighbourhoods are wearing masks when they findout that somebody from their neighbourhood, MAY have had SARS.
Hospitals where the few SARS patients were treated are losing patients....to other hospitals.
People are refusing to meet their loved ones in any hospital where a SARS victim was treated.
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HONG KONG, April 30 Local health officials said here tonight that a dozen patients who had seemed to recover from SARS became ill again after leaving the hospital.
In some cases, the illness returned more than two weeks after discharge, according to a medical expert here who refused to be quoted by name. It is not clear whether the patients contracted the infection a second time, or simply became ill with the same virus after seeming to recover. []
SARS has now reached top in Beijing according to media. There are now more than 5 600 cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome worldwide, with 3 647 of those in China. Health officials say that SARS is teaching world about outbreaks. Authorities learn how to mount an appropriate response to emerging infections.
The World Health Organization has released new findings that show the virus can live for days in human waste. Maybe this is one reason why SARS is still spreading in China.
I don't think SARS has really peaked in China because the number of cases/day is still rising to about 170 a day and the number of deaths are also increasing.
SARS has now landed in Nigeria. First SARS death there. Worldwide, over 7,540 cases and 573 deaths have been recorded, according to WHO figures. Here in Finland we have also one probable SARS case.
SARS in africa - that's not good. Newswwk had an article about the dangreous about the spred in africa where it could kill more people and spred faster becouse of poor healtcare and already sick people.
But DN(a swedish moring paper) had a short text about an german siencetist that said he was on the way of finding a cure, that was a small change to an already used medecine.
Originally posted by vonork But DN(a swedish moring paper) had a short text about an german siencetist that said he was on the way of finding a cure, that was a small change to an already used medecine.
Yesterday, they found a cluster of 20+ people with suspected SARS at a mental health hospital. Mostly patients, with a few nurse, 2 doctors. These have been quarantined at the hospital where the SARS patients are being treated.
2400 people (I think), traced thru contact-tracing, had been ordered to move into govt blocks set aside for them, to isolate them fr the population.
With these kinds of measures in place, Singapore is still on the watch-list, while Toronto's taken off...
PS And over the weekend, locals had turned out in droves to shop, eat, have fun, as per the usual weekend. Looks like the hysteria is finally dying down...
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, the country with the most paranoid reaction after Singapore has to be India.
