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...meanwhile, SARS is the only story other than the war in Iraq that has made it onto just about every news broadcast and front page. Even though nobody has died in the U.S. or even, with a single exception, got extremely sick, Americans are worried that this country could be the next major stop on SARS' international grand tour (see box), prompting President Bush to put SARS on the short list of quarantinable diseases last week...
...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...
...says, sounding like Travolta when he vaulted from Welcome Back, Kotter to Saturday Night Fever. (The Lizzie TV series has probably shot its last episode, allowing Duff to pursue her film career.) Bynes is even more determined: "I want longevity. I want to be where you don't get sick of me because in one year I'm in so many movies." She seems to realize that for her, What a Girl Wants isn't quite what Roman Holiday was for Audrey Hepburn. "I'm waiting to find something a little bit above this movie. I don't want...
...Saturday, according to the South China Morning Post, with 32 reported deaths. Although the disease appears to be communicated easily from person to person, it seems to require close contact with an infected person. Most of the cases have been tracked back to single locations where one sick person infected many others. Moreover, there are 6.8 million people in Hong Kong, which means a there are now more than 60,000 people not infected for every infected person. The recovery rate is high, and the dead are more likely to be elderly or infirm. Epidemiologists using standard models for disease...
...This war was clearly for these oilfields," concluded Hasan Muhamed, a Kurd who tried to visit the area around the oil fields to see a sick friend, only to be turned away by members of the 173rd Airborne. They had blocked all roads into the area with razor wire. "Saddam Hussein never gave us a penny for this oil, and now it looks like the Americans are going to take it." Leaning against his beat-up white Chevrolet in the blazing sun, he said he was confused about the outcome of the war so far. "We thank the Americans...