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...surveys the HSPH has previously conducted addressed the anthrax attacks related to Sept. 11, vaccinations against smallpox, and the recent concerns about the West Nile virus...
...lethal as you might fear. As of last Saturday, 89 people had died of SARS, none of them in the U.S. Health officials put the mortality rate from SARS at 3.7%. By comparison, the West Nile virus killed 277 Americans last year (a 6.7% death rate), and the flu kills 36,000 people a year in the U.S. alone...
...this may seem like an overreaction to an illness that is not nearly as deadly as West Nile virus--SARS kills 3.7% of its victims, compared with West Nile's mortality rate of 6.7% last year--and evidently much less contagious than measles or even the flu. "It's the type of disease that seems to require a lot of direct close contact with somebody who's pretty sick," says Dr. Stephen Ostroff, deputy director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta...
...deadly is SARS? Not as bad as you might fear. As of last week, 84 people had died of SARS, none of them in Europe. Health officials put the mortality rate from SARS at 3.4%. By comparison, the West Nile virus killed 277 people last year in the U.S. alone (a 6.7% death rate), and in an average year in Europe, the flu kills...
...Nile Although several companies ply the river with opulent cruise ships, one firm, Abercrombie & Kent, is heavily dependent on U.S. visitors. Before 9/11 so many Americans begged to get aboard that it was difficult to book passage without buying a package, which includes a stay at a decent Cairo hotel but not the Mena House. These days, for as little as $1,845?half the price of the package tour?you can book a four-day trip from Luxor to Aswan, or vice versa, on A&K's stately Sun Boat IV (800-323-7308). Flights from Cairo to Aswan...