On the Pacific Rim
Here too, where war news is not of the highest prirority, SARS news dominates the front page. There are boarding schools with a sizable fraction of Asian students (many of whom went home for spring break), which have taken measures of varying extremity in response to the perceived threat, including quarantine, shutting off the drinking fountains, and delaying resumption of classes for an extra week.
And there's this. Profiteering is not just a wartime activity, apparently.