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Experts have a new theory on how the Sars illness raced through an entire apartment block in Hong Kong.
They believe that cockroaches may have carried the infection from flat to flat.

The death toll from Sars - Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome - continues to mount.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2927695.stm

This whole Sars thing is scaring me!!! As if I don't have enough to worry about.

Is that how it is spreading in America too in addition to human contact? :o

Creepy thought but it makes sense when you think about it. I just sprayed my house a month ago (for ants) but reading this, it makes me want to get that gallon of Raid out again. Just in case. (I do have a clean house, LOL) An ounce of prevention......can see though how apartment to apartment would be a problem. Oh my....what next? We do have too much to worry about these days.....agree on that.

A physician at Beijing's Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital (No. 301) in a signed statement provided to TIME, says that at one Beijing hospital alone, 60 SARS patients have been admitted of whom seven have died. That indicates the number of patients infected with SARS in Beijing may be significantly higher than those totals made public by China's Ministry of Health. Last Thursday Chinese Minister of Health Zhang Wenkang announced to the press that China's capital had seen just 12 cases of SARS of whom three had died. Today's edition of the official China Daily put the number of SARS infections in Beijing at 19 with four dead.

http://www.time.com/time/asia/news/daily/0,9754,441615,00.html

wouldn't be surprised if there are many intermediate animal hosts for the virus. it must be monitored carefully.