SARS Spreads

OnePeople.org Official SARS LogoWe were beginning to feel like delusional paranoids after reporting that the SARS outbreak was coming under control and patients were being discharged. Buried amongst the war items today, Reuters is reporting that the U.S. State Department is encouraging citizens in Vietnam to leave, even offering to pay for the plane home for diplomat’s families. Five schools are now closed, and cases have been confirmed in Germany and Britain. Scientists have identified the virus, which is probably in the paramyxovirus family, of measles and mumps fame. In a darkly humorous twist, the Hong Kong Hospital Authority chief William Ho has been hospitalized with symptoms of pneumonia.