SARS - more to think about
Continued from the discussion below...
If the 49 deaths to date were mostly from the 167 reported cases 10 days ago, that would give a 29% mortality rate. And that's mostly in larger cities where presumably medical care is fairly decent. 2.5% mortality was considered "profound virulence" regarding the 1918 flu, and that was with much less effective medical care than is available today (in most of the western world, anyway).
167 to 1324 in 9 days represents a doubling of cases every 3 days or so.
I hope I'm scaring myself unnecessarily.