From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 26 10:31:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E72C137B401 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:31:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from priv-edtnes53.telusplanet.net (defout.telus.net [199.185.220.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20AAB43FAF for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:31:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from viktorlazlo@telus.net) Received: from njamn8or ([64.180.162.182]) by priv-edtnes53.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.17 201-253-122-126-117-20021021) with ESMTP id <20030626173112.CAEL2508.priv-edtnes53.telusplanet.net@njamn8or>; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:31:12 -0600 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:31:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Viktor Lazlo X-X-Sender: viktorlazlo@njamn8or.no-ip.org To: Darren Pilgrim In-Reply-To: <20030624154215.032d420c.dmp@pantherdragon.org> Message-ID: <20030626102534.X784@njamn8or.no-ip.org> References: <3EF88133.2279.3B170215@localhost> <20030624154215.032d420c.dmp@pantherdragon.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org cc: wmoran@potentialtech.com Subject: Re: SARS (was: anyone notice what os the #1 hosting provider is using?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 17:31:14 -0000 > The media is treating it like Y2k. Recently, there's a weekly story on TV > and radio news about someone with "SARS-like symptoms". My question is, what > makes them SARS-like symptoms? I thought one of the big problems with SARS is > that, short of death, its symptoms are identical to those of the flu. Don't be so quick to rule out death being caused by the humble flu virus. Until this century flu was one of the big killers of mankind, and flu researchers are constantly on the watch for signs that the virus may revert to the pandemic form last seen in the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 which killed an estimated 20-40 million people globally. Cheers, Viktor