Catherine wrote: > I've heard all sorts of paranoid ideas about it - it's the terrorists who started it; > or it's the Americans because they're pissed off with > us over Iraq.
Oh dear - sounds like some are starting to get a bit crazed over it all. I was reading today about the quarantines in Toronto. It started in China and spread to Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore. Then it came to the U.S. and Canada around the same time. People in the U.S are just as scared about it. I got even more concerned after hearing announcements at work today that one of our secretaries died suddenly yesterday and a lawyer's wife also died suddenly of pneumonia Wednesday. I'm flying north tonight and was half joking to a co-worker of wanting to get a surgical mask for the flight. She said she just happened to have one in her car and outfitted me! The health organizations are working day and night to figure it out. I read it may be a horse flu that has crossed species. Also heard that it is decreasing in virulence as it spreads. Be careful out there everyone. Kakki
