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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articl...sars07-ON.html

First suspected SARS case reported in Valley
Kerry Fehr-Snyder
The Arizona Republic
Apr. 7, 2003 05:25 PM


Arizona's first suspected case of a mysterious pneumonia sweeping the globe has landed in the Valley.

A man who had traveled recently through Hong Kong was hospitalized with symptoms of as severe acute respiratory syndrome, Maricopa County health department officials said late Monday. He has been released and is expected to recover.

Health officials declined to release the victim's name or any other identifying information. They also would not identify the hospital where he was treated.

Worldwide, more than 2,300 people have been sickened, and the death toll hit 100 on Monday. There are now 148 U.S. cases in 30 states with no deaths.

On Monday, government officials in southern China, which is believed to be ground zero of the disease, reported that the disease had spread farther than they initially reported. State television reported one SARS death each in the provinces of Shanxi in the north, Sichuan in the west and Hunan in central China — the first reported fatalities in those areas and an indication the disease was more widespread than previously acknowledged.

Includes information from the Associated Press

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Young Gun

this could be the next Spanish influenza, I'm really beginning to get troubled over this whole thing.

Krangthebrain

If it were the next Spanish flu, 10,000s of 1,000s would already be dead. The Spanish Flu was the single greatest pandemic the world has ever faced....19 million dead....and actually helped to end World War I.

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Young Gun

maybe your're right Krang.

Krangthebrain

Oh, I will be right (at least this time).

Other than people dying in places with terrible health care like China, I think the rest of us in this overprivileged capitalistic society don't have to worry about it.

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“Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimum food or water, in austere conditions, day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon. He doesn’t worry about what workout to do—his rucksack weighs what it weighs, and he runs until the enemy stops chasing him. The True Believer doesn’t care ‘how hard it is’; he knows he either wins or he dies. He doesn’t go home at 1700; he is home. He knows only the ‘Cause.’ Now, who wants to quit?”

NCOIC of the Special Forces Assessment and Selection Course in a welcome speech to new SF candidates

On life after football: "I wouldn't mind being a sports commentator. Having my own segment, working for ESPN, my own talk show. Part time trainer. Part time car mechanic. Part time Sprint cell phone salesman. Part time car washman. Grocery store baggage man. Football coach. Model. Actress. Stripper. And I even have dreams of being the next crocodile hunter." - Darnell Dockett

Young Gun

okay, I feel better now.

Red Hawk

So far this reminds me of the great West Nile plague that was supposed to kill Americans at the same rate as it does in Africa.

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ajcardfan

That flu epidemic killed 600,000 Americans in about eight months. If you calculated the percentage of deaths with our population today, it'd be 1.5million! Just in the United States! I'm not saying a new virulent disease isn't important. It is. But just the fact that someone compares it to the Spanish flu when about 80 people have died worldwide shows what a fear-mongering, sensationlizing entity our modern media is.

BTW, did you ever wonder where some of the strange laws on the books about spitting in public, shaking hands in public, etc came from? Many came from that flu epidemic in 1918. And do you know what country was considered the model of legislating to contain the flu? Italy. The health minister of Italy? Mussolini.

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Krangthebrain

Wow you know a lot more about this than I do.

But you actually made my point. ONLY (as sick as that sounds) 80 people have died from what some in the media are calling a major worry (some have even said it could be a pandemic ). It is so funny how media driven our society has become....

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“Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimum food or water, in austere conditions, day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon. He doesn’t worry about what workout to do—his rucksack weighs what it weighs, and he runs until the enemy stops chasing him. The True Believer doesn’t care ‘how hard it is’; he knows he either wins or he dies. He doesn’t go home at 1700; he is home. He knows only the ‘Cause.’ Now, who wants to quit?”

NCOIC of the Special Forces Assessment and Selection Course in a welcome speech to new SF candidates

On life after football: "I wouldn't mind being a sports commentator. Having my own segment, working for ESPN, my own talk show. Part time trainer. Part time car mechanic. Part time Sprint cell phone salesman. Part time car washman. Grocery store baggage man. Football coach. Model. Actress. Stripper. And I even have dreams of being the next crocodile hunter." - Darnell Dockett

jmt

Well, that is if you believe that only 80 people have died so far. Maybe we should all run out and buy surgical masks to go with our gas masks and duct tape.

GBR

elindholm

With the Spanish flu, did all 600,000 Americans die simultaneously? Or did a few of them die first?