SARS
01/05/03. Maybe the news about SARS so far have not been exhaustive. We tried to look for scientific reports, and here is what we found. Anybody can consider this critically.
A mild influenza can kills in a year 250,000 people around the world. Malaria kills almost 3,000 persons per day, mostly children. In one month SARS killed 252 in all the world. Let's multiply this number times 12 months, let's double it (admitting that the worse still have to come), let's make it 10 times greater: we will always be well below the number of deaths produced by a mild influenza. We cannot make a comparison with malaria: but malaria is diffused in many countries where we usually go, as tourists. Nobody stops travelling for this.
People affected by SARS can heal: 94% of the people that took the virus recovered.
Now a question: why the media have inflated this new, enhancing a unmotivated fear toward a disease (according with numbers) kills less than influenza? Is it only for the sales, or is this part of a game that we do not understand fully?
Another thing: will the Asian tourist operators, dead by starvation due to the touristic block, be counted amongst the people dead due to SARS?
Have a look at this webpage.
Maybe travelling it is not that dangerous. Give us back our free time!