"Sure, the Hindustan Times reporter clearly bypassed the CDC PC code words such as "communities" and deciphered them for their readers. I'll concede the CDC did not use that phrase "race-specific" and in fact went out of their way to avoid it when describing risk factors of transmission."

Okay, so now because they DON'T say race anywhere, there is a clever cover-up or subterfuge involved? Thats like saying that the lack of evidence for proposition X MEANS that there is a cover-up involved. Loonie waves are eminating from you right now, tech-1

"TOTAL: 4649 cases

Asia:

CHINA: 2601 cases
CH, HONG KONG: 1510 cases
TAIWAN: 41 cases
"

Interesting, But TECH-1, din't you know that Hong Kong and Taiwan are very ethnically diverse communities, from the days that they were european colonies?

"A common sense estimate would say that it is very likely 99% of the victims are of Asian ancestry."

I don't buy that, how do you know SARS is not hitting Euro-descended asions in Hong Kong or TaiWan? Or what about the large tibetan population ion Hong Kong? You don't! You are making generalizations that you have NO DATA TO SUPPORT WHATSOEVER.

Are you such an idiot that you DON'T expect a large percentage of the first cases to reflect ethnic distribution of the ORIGIN POINT of the disease? Are you really that dumb? So not only do you deny that there is NO GENETIC REALITY to Race, but you ALSO seem to deny every established fact about the spread of vectors: namely that they spread through communities based on person to person contact. Do you think SARS rained down from space all over the globe all at once?

"How many epidemics can be let loose for SIX MONTHS, reach every continent of the globe and still manage to infect only around 1% of non-asian ancestry individuals?"

Again, more factless idiocy, Tech-1. This epidemic has not been 'let loose' (whatever that means) for 6 months. America and Canada had been made aware of the Illness BEFORE it reached our community. We were then able to take measures to halt its spread. We also have more sophisitcated, available and modern sanitation, medical isolation facilities and medical facilities that we have used with good effect to slow the spread of SARS.

"I am just pointing out what should be patently obvious to anyone who bothers to gather some facts and fire a few signals through the synaptic centers."

You are dressing up your idle un-educated POORLY READ speculations as facts, tech-1, and when I caught you and showed you up as unread, you persist. You sound just like Johannes or Grondine....

Go read a book. Go read the CDC releases. Thiink things through, ask good questions and try to learn something.

Davin L.