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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Latest update on the SARS epidemic in Singapore and Malaysia :-

Singapore
Total infected= 103 persons from 7 index cases, dead= 6
Still in hospital= 25, cured= 72

Malaysia
Total infected= still unknown but probably dozens, dead= 1

1 dead from SARS in Malaysia, ST

SARS in Singapore, CNA
SARS Worldwide, breakdown by country, CNN

Is Saddam Hussien and his 2 sons dead or injured?
They could have been killed in one of the
first airborne attacks by US and British forces.

The Iraqi regime still appears to be putting up a deceptive
front in order to conceal their deaths by playing old pre-recorded
video tapes of Saddam. May the truth be known soon!!

Hope that there be an end to all Iraqi lies and evil, and that there
will be a quick resolution to the war and to the suffering of the
innocent civilian victims.

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Latest update on the SARS epidemic in Singapore :-

Total infected= 98 persons from 7 index cases, dead= 4

So far 57 have been cured and have developed immunity
to the SARS, and have the potential of becoming human
"serum factories" for producing antibodies for treatment
of those who have become infected.

Malaysia now admits that it has "SARS like" cases after
one person has died and several others have been
hospitalised with symptoms similar to SARS.
Perhaps the Malaysian officials should take their heads
out of their arses (rhymes with SARS doesn't it?) and
figure out what is actually going on. I suspect that the
disease is already in the country, except that they do not
know it or are trying to cover up the news.
This was just like China in the beginning of the onset of the
disease outbreak, until it was too late, and they had to admit
there was a problem after things went out of control.

SARS in Singapore

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Update on the SARS epidemic in Singapore :-

Total infected= 95 persons from 6 index cases, dead= 4

Some of the index cases were "super infectors" and
caused more than 20 others to be ill just by being near them.
This was what happened for of index case#1 (Miss Mok), who
was the main person responsible for bringing the disease back
to Singapore after a shopping trip in HK. Wonder if she will be
fined or punished for causing all the suffering and deaths?
Perhaps in a way she has, since her father died from SARS
after she passed the bug on to him and her other family members.

SARS in Singapore
SARS Worldwide, breakdown by country

I am in full agreement with the views expressed today in the newspaper "Straits Times forum page" (Not in S'pore's interests to back US action in Iraq, by wiriter Justin Ker Ruixin). Wonder what has happened to Singapore's previous policy of neutrality? Perhaps the present PAP government or Minister Jayakumar has forgotten about this, and have decided to become a puppy dog of USA, just like PM Blair of UK!
My opinion is that the Singapore government should reconsider their stand on this matter, in the interests of international law and order. I believe the USA under President Bush has set a dangerous modern prededant by invading a country without any legal justification and outside the sanctions of the UN. Anyway, historically this is actually nothing new, as the Western powers since colonial times have always sent in their troops to invade other countries in Asia and Africa whenever they felt like it, and if it suited their purposes (usually economic). One good example in this century is the "Opium Wars" in China.