RIP: SARS

Remember
SARS? Remember waking up in a cold sweat at 3 am after nightmaring that you got infected with SARS after a visit to Chinatown?

SARS was far weaker than the Bird Flu. Sars mortality rate was at about 10 percent. About eight thousand people got it, about eight hundred died. Bird Flu got 199 people out of 327, at a 61 percent mortality rate. SARS was more contagious, as people tend to associate with other people far more than they associate with birds.

Aren't we due for another "general freakout" story. Shouldn't a new illness come out of the woodwork? Or is the mystery disease storyline dead? Come on, Asia, we're counting on you.


With SARS, dozens of miniature kiwis invade your lungs.



Wolf Blitzer's beard: Breeding ground for pandemic viruses and crabs.

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4 Comments:

At 8:26 AM, October 05, 2007, kevin said...

back off blitzer's beard! you could only hope to grow something so clean looking. that's one of the more crisp beards i've ever seen . . . accept for when hollywood hulk hogan donned his drawn-on black beard at the start of the NWO.

 
At 9:29 AM, October 05, 2007, Matt Stooks said...

Fine. You got me. I'm jealous of Wolf. But you know that thing is a bacteria trap.

 
At 9:57 AM, October 05, 2007, kevin said...

i think you mean lady trap

 
At 10:14 AM, October 05, 2007, Matt Stooks said...

HAHA! That's where the crabs come from.

 

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