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.
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The Chinese Commies reported another 405 SARS cases yesterday, and their death rate is reported at 148/1470, or 10%.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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: 263Recovered: 2117Death rate (dead/total of dead and recovered): 11 percentDeath rates for some of the larger epidemic areas:Canada: [...]
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