SARS!!!

There was a song,i cant remeber the bands name right now,but the song went like this: this is the end of the world as we know it....

thank God here in Manila there is no case about SARS,but in China,Singapore and Hongkong many people are affected there 😞

[quote="GhostDog"]There was a song,i cant remeber the bands name right now,but the song went like this: this is the end of the world as we know it....[/quote]

that was by REM, and it sure looks that way. :-? 😞

hi guys, please find the attach info regarding SARS.

Death toll in Singapore, 4 had wasted....

3 new SARS cases in Singapore, including a 6th index case

The imported case, the 6th in Singapore, is a 56-year-old Chinese woman who arrived in Singapore on 16 March to visit her daughter here, says MOH

SARS in South Africa = South African Revenue Service = Tax Man

What a terrible name for a disease, even a nasty one 😃

Some sharing from doctor, Hong Kong

Subject: FW: Message from Dr. Justin Wu - Doctor in ward 8A

Please read the forwarded message very carefully. It is from Dr. Wu who has been managing the SARS in Prince of Wales Hospital for the past few weeks.

Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:09:23 +0800

Dear all,

Hundreds of staff are working with me and they are all facing the same risk of infection. It is really sad that over last 2-week fight 8% of our
staff have been infected despite droplet precaution, probably due to pitfalls like air leak on N95 mask, rubbing eyes/nose after touching the mask, etc.

So you can imagine how contagious this virus is! The outbreak in Amoy Garden is not surprising to me because this is exactly what has happened in ward 8A. The only difference is that the number of infectious index cases now in Amoy Garden is 60 times of PWH's.

We do believe this infection has wide spectrum of clinical presentation ranging from sorethroat and low grade fever to full blown ARDS/BOOP. We think the clinical presentation depends partly on the dose of inoculum.
The ultimate protection against this new virus is our immunity and invitably all of us will be infected eventually. The purpose of preventive measure is to minimize the dose of virus so as to avoid severe complication.

Could you please forward these messages to all your friends and relatives and ask them to distribute further?

1. Always wear a well-fitted mask (N95 or 3 ply surgical) in escalator, bus, MTR, train, office, restaurant and shopping mall. Don't go to cinema. Push the button in the lift using your key to avoid any direct contact with your bare hand. If you can tolerate a latex glove, wear it.

2. Don't touch your mask, it traps a lot of droplets.

3. All the surfaces within a distance of 5 feet from a patient are highly infectious because of droplets. Wash your hands frequently. Don't rub your eyes, touch your nose or mouth before washing hands.

4. Clean the door handles, furnitures and floor with diluted (1 in 100) bleaching detergent. Dettol is NOT useful. Wash your clothes immediately after going home.

5. Patient is highly infectious 2-3 days (in contrast to what EK Yeoh said) even before developing illness. Treat those without wearing mask potentially infectious even if they look healthy.

Take care buddy.

this is indeed very alarming! there's already 1 case of death due to that illness in Malaysia.

Yeah indeed... more infectious than Ebola...

Perhap US might think of using this as a weapon against Saddam's troop.. and end the war asap!!!

[quote="Edgedale"]Yeah indeed... more infectious than Ebola...

Perhap US might think of using this as a weapon against Saddam's troop.. and end the war asap!!![/quote]

Shhhh they might hear you and do it. LOL

[quote="Edgedale"]Yeah indeed... more infectious than Ebola...

Perhap US might think of using this as a weapon against Saddam's troop.. and end the war asap!!![/quote]

LOL!!! 😃 😃 😃 😃

Good thing SARS is not here in the Philippines yet! But we could never be sure! I just hope they can find a cure for it as soon as possible!!!

Hopefully there will be some good news from States soon... 😞

It's just so sad why China didn't warn us ahead of time... now, the disease is spreading so fast! And it's hard to find a cure. Maybe it will take like 3 years to find it. They apologized about a week ago about it... but what can we do now? nobody can stop it yet...

Reason is very simple..

They and their economy.... it's will have a strong impact to them! Futhermore, their country is too big to manage. People just don't care till ALL HELL BREAK LOOSE. By the time it's too late!!!!

I hate them... i hate communist!!!!

Let's us learn from this incident to be alert at all time. Don't learn frm the red army. :x

yeah... maybe you're right! no, i think you're right!!! :angel: :angel: :angel: hehehe!

It's allways the same. Remember when HIV broke out in USA and Europe? First dismissed as the gay disease. All that confusion about infected blood transfusions in France wasn't it? Or remember when BSE (mad cow disease) broke out? How long it took the officials really to understand that it was serious? They are so complex decicions to make.

We're told here that less than 100 people so far have been killed by SARS. Maybe the statistics are not accurate, but would still argue that this is not the end of the world as we know it. But serious and sad no doubt :cry:

Hopefully it isn't the end of the world... 😞

God will end the world in a very unexpected moment. It's all in the bible, be alert always for the Lord will come like a thief in the dark nite when all are asleep.

The bottom line is... be good always and obey His Law. Love one another as how He love the world so much that He give His one and only Son to the world.

[quote="ST@RR"]Hopefully it isn't the end of the world... 😞[/quote]

I assume you think this is the apocalypse... :-? 😮

Perhaps.... 😃

[quote="The Godfather"]I assume you think this is the apocalypse... :-? 😮[/quote]

Yeah, I've read that too in the bible... I guess i'm just afraid of dying. You know what's weird? Most people are afraid of dying but maybe our lives in heaven would be better than here on earth right? 😊 I mean God is God... I'm sure he wouldn't let us feel lonely and sad up there :angel:

[quote="The Godfather"]I assume you think this is the apocalypse... :-? 😮[/quote]

hope not 😮

Ppl we need to think positive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😉

Death Toll in Singapore from SARS:

To date, 8 have wasted. Recent victim was a young doctor. 😞

One more died from SARS lastnite. She did not make it.

Hey guys, excuse me for saying this but there are other diseases in the world as well. People die from hiv, cancer, heart attacks, tuberculoses, malnutrition, you name it. Every death is sad, but media just starts the hype on some.

Hey guy !!!!

Don't be too worry! SARS isn't that serious virus. According to the statistic, only 3 % of those who catch SARS died so far.
All of them are over 40. For those who catch SARS doesn't mean that they will die.
Anti-virus in our body will cure by itself.

To be sure of SARS, wear mask, clean your hand always.