Yeah, I should have put this there

Post #98,949 by Silverlock 4/27/03 1:15:00 PM Reply	Yeah, I should have put this there The article does bring up something that I hadn't considered before. Is the possiblity of less serious cases that are not identified as SARS (because the symptoms don't advance beyond common a cold) real enough to skew the rate upward? The world is only a simple place to the simple.
Post #98,955 by ben_tilly 4/27/03 1:48:39 PM Reply	That possibility looks reasonably slim to me That is one thing that contact tracing does for you. If you have some cases of SARS which are not caught because they do not advance beyond something like a cold, I would still expect to see them infect others. And you would see that in the form of people showing up with SARS and no explainable route of transmission. You might not find the intermediate carrier, but you can infer their existence. We have not inferred their existence yet, so I am inclined to think that they aren't there. This logic assumes that people with mild symptoms can infect others and give them full-blown SARS. That is a big assumption. If they do not infect others, then their existence skews your statistics but it isn't that big a deal. If they infect others but only with a mild form of SARS, that probably means that the bug mutated. Which could actually be good news. A mild form of a disease often can innoculate you against a serious one. (See cowpox vs smallpox.) In which case failure to spot that does not make the epidemic more scary, rather it is a potential opportunity lost... Cheers, Ben "good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not" - [link\|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html\|Stefano Mazzocchi]
Post #100,918 by Steven A S 5/8/03 12:08:52 PM Reply	There already is a mild "mutation" It's called the common cold. It appears that SARS is a mutation of the Coronavirus; the virus responsible for the annoying, but normally non fatal disease which to date has still not been cured by anything short of time and symptom relieving medications. ~~~)-Steven---- "I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country..." General George S. Patton
Post #100,922 by admin 5/8/03 12:18:21 PM Reply	Not really. SARS is a corona virus, yes. But it is radically different from the corona virus that causes the common cold. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."

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