Of course it is a major concern for the WHO, this sort of thing is their job. What it is NOT is some sort of super-killer virus and it isn;t even close to being out of control. China have messed up but just about everyhwere else containing it has been easy.
Like I said before, not to ignore those who have died of it but in the long term this will be as nothing. The true killers- malaria, cholera, even pneumonia- will carry on with far deeper consequences.
Malaria, Cholera, and the various forms of Pneumonia have been around for thousands and thousands of years infecting and killing humans. The problem with SARS is that it is an "emerging virus". It is related to the common cold and the flu but still different. Still new. That is why it is spreading like wildfire in China and a few other places who have been lax in health and hygiene and prevention on the governmental level. But eventually it will spread to other areas. The U.S. and Europe have not been hit yet on a mass scale because we were on the alert and on time, but that does not mean that it can't get away from us. All you need is a few people who are infected to start "running amouk" and start infecting large groups of people. THis is what happened in China. That man with diarrhea that infected two buildings in a housing complex is a good example. Here in NYC we have tenements like that. Leaking pipes and other high risk nasty occurrences. That is the reason people are staying away from China town here in NYC and across the country. Those people are constantly traveling back and forth to China, Taiwan, Taipei, etc.
Malaria, Cholera and Pneumonia actually kill enough of the people they infect for them to be worried about.
I repeat, in the long term this disease will be as nothing. Hysteria about it may end up being a bigger problem than the disease itself- and that is the opinion of every medical expert I have seen interviewed on the subject.
LOL!! The best thing is not to go to these places, but the Chinese go for business and for family so that will be difficult to convince them not to go over there.
As for SARS hysteria, true there is hysteria that is natural under the circumstances. It should be treated with respect. There is always people with the cavalier idea that they are either immune and/or there is no real threat. People in some ways thought the same way about AIDS. In fact, the asian AIDS meltdown is just beginning because they had the cavalier attitude and the arrogance to think that only gay men get this disease. So they went ahead with the freewheeling prostitution on every level and now there is an explosion of AIDS cases in Asia. Especially in the Far East. About 3 years ago China had admitted an explosion of AIDS cases because they were of the thought that AIDS did not exist in their country. The same is happening in the rest of Asia and the Middle East.
So a cavalier attitude about any disease is very dangerous. That's how it really spreads.
SARS like the common cold can be caught through being in the same room with someone without touching them. In the case of the housing complex in China it was one infected man with a bad diarrhea case. BANG!!! 300 people in the complex was infected and the entire place quarantined.
The problem is...
SURPRISE!!!! 😮
SARS has already gotten out. What the WHO and CDC and other places that are infected are trying very hard to contain it. Trying to keep people from moving around too much. The other countries now are try to stop a major spread of this disease through international travel. Planes and boats and buses and the like. Planes are the worst because of the recycled air. Remember the Norwalk virus outbreak on cruise ships. What a horror. All surfaces were infected. ALL. It took the industry MONTHS to disinfect their ships. Even though we haven't heard about it anymore doesn't mean it doesn't exist anymore. Now that was an epidemic even though it stayed with cruise ships. So Viruses cannot be taken for granted. Especially the very very virulent ones. Nasty buggers.
Well the WHO is an organization branched off of the United Nations, and there are many organizations that are exactly like the WHO that are also competing for the UN's money to support their causes. It's like the FBI and CIA, 9/11 could have been avoided had they shared their information, but they didn't. Why? Because each organization is comepeting for government support. So they figure the one with the most information gets the most money.....think of this and the WHO.
LOL!!! I do the same thing Corran! 😄
As for the CIA and the FBI and the NSA concerning 9/11... that is what we are told. We will never know the truth about that situation. How do we know the CIA and the FBI aren't the fall guys and cover for a more evil and sinister reason why that happened.
Anyway back to SARS. Why just China initially? How do we know that SARS isn't something that got away from them and now it's cascaded?
How do we know this isn't a "test"?
At this moment the count is 7,000+ infected and over 500 dead.
Sure in the "natural world" but humans live in an unnatural world and the world of their making.
Being that SARS is related to the common cold and the flu then it is not farfetched to assume that this is a microbe that got away from the labs. We are never hear about these things. Perfect altered microbe and of course they would "watch" to see how it moves and tracks through the populaiton and how long it takes to get around the world. The severity and the rapidity of the spread of this disease in this one country is amazing. I am sure the WHO and the CDC have had the thought cross their minds and desks. Regardless of who is funding them.
It is good and safe to assume the farfetched sometimes because it may just be the truth of the situation.