Re: SARS could live for weeks outside human body!!
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtPrint/WSIHW000/333/35203/362354.html?d=dmtICNNews
What are the symptoms?
Severe acute respiratory syndrome describes an illness that fits the following current World Health Organization criteria:
* Fever over 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius), AND
* Respiratory symptoms such as a cough and shortness of breath, AND
* Either close contact with someone who's already been diagnosed with SARS or recent travel to places with known cases of the disease
People become ill from the virus two to 11 days after they are exposed to another infected person.
Some patients seem able to transmit the infection only by close face-to-face contact with others (family, health workers, etc.). However, other patients appear to be "super-transmitters", able to spread the virus by casual contact, such as by coughing near another person. Almost all patients develop fevers, most feel very weak and ill, all have a dry cough (nothing is coughed up), and most become short of breath. Other common symptoms are chills and headaches. Blood tests usually show several abnormalities: low levels of white blood cells, called lymphocytes; and elevated levels of several enzymes, including lactate dehydrogenase, aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, and creatinine kinase.
