IMBW, but the two chief suspects were viruses, and the main one a new variant of the common cold rhinovirus, but immune to current therapies. The fatality rate seems very low, when treatment is sought promptly, provided you have not consumed massive quantities of daty lately. Bottom line, read the WHO website alerts every few days. The most very safety conscious will not travel west of California for several months, until the virus is identified and a vaccine developed.
The writer of that article does not even seem to realize that Chlamydia is caused by a bacteria. I fail to see how a bacteria can cause a viral infection.
" The China Daily yesterday quoted doctors from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as saying they had traced airborne chlamydia - a virus usually contracted through sexual contact - in the bodies of five Sars victims."
I wouldn't put much stock in such reports. China has been way behind the curve in identifying -- and describing -- the outbreak in Guangdong Province (where apparently SARS began); there has been much less information about the epidemiology of SARS among these China cases than among cases in US, Canada etc. (International transmission seems to have been traced to individuals exposed at the Hotel Metropole in Hong Kong). These international cases are almost certainly caused by a coronavirus (the evidence is large and growing). Exactly which cases this chlamydia report refers to is not clear -- the cases may or may not be related to SARS. This is important since several different types of chlamydia are well known to cause pneumonia/respiratory infection: Chlamydia pneumoniae -- associated with pnenumonia, atherosclerosis; Chlamydia psittaci -- the cause of psittacosis. The common organism which causes genital infection -- urethritis, cervicitis, PID -- is Chlamydia trachomatis -- and it is a well known cause of pneumonia in infants who acquired infection from mom at birth. It is questionable if it causes pneumonia in adults with normal immune systems). And certainly it is possible someone in China has a respiratory infection caused by "chlamydia." But it is very clear that SARS is not caused by chlamydia. Be safe.
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