Re:What "SARS" really stands for (Score 1)

Or a result of the Hong Kong population's lack of immunity to mainland Chinese germs due to former travel limitations, creating a new breeding ground? (The latter is just my own wild speculation.)

Travel restrictions have not changed that significantly in either direction - so I doubt it's that.

The problem with "atypical pnumonia" (as it's being called in HK) seems to be that:

1) it's symptoms are similar to normal flu,
2) there is no quick test for it, and
3) it does not seem to respond well to the usuall barage of drugs that people are given.

It's also worth noting that the only people that have died from it in HK were either very elderly or suffering from another sever disease at the time. Fourty percent of the original 'victims' have already recovered...

Sam.
(in HK)