Health help-SARS

[dcowboys055]

Ok I'm going to go ahead and just look real dumb here. I have a project on SARS (why SARS, I don't know) due Wednesday. I've researched some and know generally what it is, how you get it, etc. But are there still people who get this? Or is it "dead" right now? I haven't seen any definite answers to that

[dcowboys055]

Come on, a few of you have to be smart?

[soundout9]

what is SARS?

[dcowboys055]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome

[Neoteny]

Last I heard, the extreme measures that were taken prevented any sort of major spread of Sars. Mass quarantines of the infected seemed to work well. I'll check some scholarly journals real quick to see if I can find anything...

[ParadiceCity9]

asian people give you that.

[Neoteny]

http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/168/11/1415

Here's an article from JMAC (Journal de l'Association Médicale Canadienne, French: Canadian Medical Association Journal). Right in the background it says SARS is continuing to spread throughout the world. It seems like this is a case study of a SARS outbreak in 2003 at a hospital. If you can't use anything else from the article, it still looks great as a reference. Hope this helps.

[dcowboys055]

Thanks a lot neoteny

[MeDeFe]

From what I gathered when SARS was in the news it was extremely unlikely that a person would actually get it, unless this person spent hours working around infected birds. I don't remember hearing of any case where a person got it from an other person either, so I figured it was a pretty harmless disease as long as you didn't catch it, just hardboil your eggs and follow standard hygienic procedures when preparing fowl and you'll be fine.

I never understood why people were half-panicking about it.

[Neoteny]

From what I gathered when SARS was in the news it was extremely unlikely that a person would actually get it, unless this person spent hours working around infected birds. I don't remember hearing of any case where a person got it from an other person either, so I figured it was a pretty harmless disease as long as you didn't catch it, just hardboil your eggs and follow standard hygienic procedures when preparing fowl and you'll be fine.

I never understood why people were half-panicking about it.

Because there was a mortality rate of about 10% and it actually hit close to home. It wasn't like hearing about ebolavirus in some African country killing 50-90% of the people who got it. If it's not nearby, then it doesn't matter. Anyone hear that there was a new species of ebolavirus found last month? Anyone even care?

[dcowboys055]

From what I gathered when SARS was in the news it was extremely unlikely that a person would actually get it, unless this person spent hours working around infected birds. I don't remember hearing of any case where a person got it from an other person either, so I figured it was a pretty harmless disease as long as you didn't catch it, just hardboil your eggs and follow standard hygienic procedures when preparing fowl and you'll be fine.

I never understood why people were half-panicking about it.

That was the avian bird flu, like 2005, this is SARS (2002-2003 outbreak in China)