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Canadian SARS
This just keeps getting better and better. WHO lifted the travel ban based on there not being any new SARS cases in the last 20 days. Okey doaky. Let’s go to the facts. As of April 29, 2003, Health Canada has received reports of 346 probable or suspect cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Canada. There have been 21 deaths in Canada. To date, transmission has been limited to specific transmission settings such as households, hospitals and specific community settings. The information contained in this update is based on the information available to Health Canada at this time. The details of the cases to date are as follows: * Ontario is reporting 144 probable and 118 suspect cases. * British Columbia is reporting 4 … Read entire article »
Filed under: Analysis, Canada, Medicine, Mocking, Original writing, SARS
Commies and SARS
The Chinese Commies reported another 405 SARS cases yesterday, and their death rate is reported at 148/1470, or 10%. Worldwide death rate is 12.6%. Do you suppose their numbers are accurate? ROTFL. Current WHO table through April 29, 2003 here. The U.S. is now five days behind in reporting. How come? Canada is 20/106, still 18.9% with 4 new cases and 40 total neither recovered nor dead. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Analysis, Medicine, Original writing, SARS
Current SARS Data Worldwide
Source: WHO Country Cumulative number of case(s)2 Number of new cases since last WHO update2 Final status/ Number of deaths Final status/ Number recovered3 Local chain(s) of transmission4 Date of last report Australia 4 0 0 3 None 28/Apr/2003 Brazil 2 0 0 2 None 24/Apr/2003 Bulgaria 1 0 0 0 None 24/Apr/2003 Canada 142 0 18 77 Yes 28/Apr/2003 China 2914 161 131 1299 Yes 27/Apr/2003 China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region5 1557 30 138 710 Yes 28/Apr/2003 China, Taiwan 66 17 0 25 Yes 28/Apr/2003 France 5 0 0 1 None 21/Apr/2003 Germany 7 0 0 6 None 28/Apr/2003 India 1 0 0 1 None 21/Apr/2003 Indonesia 1 0 0 1 None 23/Apr/2003 Italy 8 4 0 3 None 28/Apr/2003 Japan 2 0 0 0 None 28/Apr/2003 Kuwait 1 0 0 1 None 20/Apr/2003 Malaysia 6 1 2 2 None 28/Apr/2003 Mongolia 5 0 0 3 None 26/Apr/2003 Philippines 4 0 2 1 None 28/Apr/2003 Republic of Ireland 1 0 0 1 None 24/Apr/2003 Romania 1 0 0 1 None 22/Apr/2003 Singapore 199 1 23 137 Yes 28/Apr/2003 South Africa 1 0 0 0 None 9/Apr/2003 Spain 1 0 0 1 None 24/Apr/2003 Sweden 3 0 0 2 None 23/Apr/2003 Switzerland 1 0 0 1 None 21/Apr/2003 Thailand 7 0 2 5 None 26/Apr/2003 United Kingdom 6 0 0 6 Yes 28/Apr/2003 United States 41 0 0 not available Yes 25/Apr/2003 Viet Nam 63 0 5 53 None 28/Apr/2003 Total 5050 214 321 2342 Death rate is 321/2663, or 12.1% worldwide Canada: 18/95, 18.9% Communist China: 131/1430, 9.2% Yeah, right! Hong Kong: 138/848, 16.3% Free China: 0/25, 0% Singapore: 23/160, 14.4% United States: 0/41 data four days old Vietnam: 5/58, 8.6% There are sixteen countries with recoveries and no deaths, mostly First World … Read entire article »
Filed under: Analysis, Medicine, Original writing, SARS
CDC Statment about SARS
From the Centers for Disease Control The majority of suspect and probable cases of SARS in the United States continue to be travel associated, with only limited secondary spread to contacts such as family members and HCWs. Toronto has been added to the list of areas with suspected or documented community transmission of SARS included in the interim U.S. SARS case definition (2). SARS transmission in Toronto has been limited to a small number of hospitals, households, and specific community settings. In particular, cases of SARS have been documented among some members of a religious community who attended a large gathering in Toronto in late March; some of these persons infected members of their households and other close contacts (4). In response to these reports, CDC recommended that U.S. travelers to … Read entire article »
Belgium, Redux
Washington Times Belgium, the only country that will be going straight to Hell, is considering whether or not to charge General Tommy Franks and other officers for war crimes in Iraq. Belgium, a country full of Phlegms and Loons, raped and sodomized (and not in a good way) the Congo for centuries and never once managed to feel any guilt. In fact, the country is crawling with people who participated in that particular crime against humanity and have never been charged. Nor have the tens of thousands of Belgians who fought with Hitler’s SS in World War II. I blogged this here. And now they may feel superior enough to the United States to try to charge our officers with war crimes. Time to leave Belgium, move NATO HQ out. Budapest is a lovely … Read entire article »
Filed under: Belgium, Mocking, Politics, War on Terror
SARS Data
My guess is that the spike in late March was the Commies in China owning up to some larger numbers. Notice that the number of new cases has been falling since about April 6. Per the WHO, worldwide: Dead: 263 Recovered: 2117 Death rate (dead/total of dead and recovered): 11 percent Death rates for some of the larger epidemic areas: Canada: 15 of 82 Communist China (large grain of salt): 110 of 1,364 Hong Kong: 109 of 676 Free China: 0 of 21 Singapore: 19 of 137 U.S.: 37 reported cases, no deaths, recovery number not available Sources: WHO Main SARS Page WHO Graph Source WHO Reported Numbers It’s worth noting that there are, at this time, 17 countries reporting 28 total recoveries and no deaths. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Analysis, Medicine, Original writing, SARS
‘Belligerent’ Canadian Puts Hundreds at SARS Risk
Yahoo News TORONTO (Reuters) – A health-care worker who is probably infected with the deadly SARS virus could have put hundreds of people at risk after he refused to obey a voluntary quarantine request and became “obnoxious” and “threatening,” Ontario health officials said on Monday. The man, whose name officials did not disclose, should not have attended a funeral or church services over the Easter weekend, Dr. Hanif Kassam, medical officer of health for the region of York, just north of Toronto, told a news conference. Any guesses as to if he had the letters M.D. after his name? … Read entire article »
SARS
SARS does not appear as contagious as the Spanish Flu. SARS has just under 4000 cases in eight weeks, though you have to take the Communist Chinese figure with a large grain of salt. This source suggests the Flu was significantly more contagious, by orders of magnitude if I am interpreting the facts correctly. The only near First World country that has had deaths is Canada. It is apparent that the Canadians lost their minds early on and forgot everything they had ever heard about epidemiology and contagion. Sheer unmitigated stupidity has been the main reason for the spread of SARS in Canada. The paper says that it’s been five weeks in Toronto, 251 cases, 15 dead. It’s not clear if the 251 number is cases now, or total cases to date. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Analysis, Medicine, Original writing, SARS
SARS Figures
My guess is that the spike in late March was the Commies in china owning up to some larger numbers. Notice that the number of new cases has been falling since about April 6. Per the WHO, worldwide: Dead: 263 Recovered: 2117 Death rate (dead/total of dead and recovered): 11 percent Death rates for some of the larger epidemic areas: Canada: 15 of 82 Communist China (large grain of salt): 110 of 1,364 Hong Kong: 109 of 676 Free China: 0 of 21 Singapore: 19 of 137 U.S.: 37 reported cases, no deaths, recovery number not available Sources: WHO Main SARS Page WHO Graph Source WHO Reported Numbers It’s worth noting that there are, at this time, 17 countries reporting 28 total recoveries and no deaths. … Read entire article »
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