# I have a cold - and I keep hearing about SARS

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 28, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-cold-and-i-keep-hearing-about-sars/164671 "2003-03-28T01:17:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-cold-and-i-keep-hearing-about-sars/164671/41 "2003-03-30T20:22:52Z")

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> \*Originally posted by \*\*summerbreeze \*\*  
> … It also says SARS is spread by “close contact,” which it describes as hand-shaking, back-slapping, etc. …

[it might be airborne](http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/03/30/mystery.illness/index.html)

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**Author:** ![summerbreeze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@summerbreeze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/summerbreeze)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-cold-and-i-keep-hearing-about-sars/164671/42 "2003-03-30T23:53:09Z")

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My newspaper (the Daily Surprise) says it isn’t airborne, **shijinm**. (It also says patriots love war, & Freedom Fries are a Good Thing, so we must consider the source.)

I’ve been at work today but will visit the site recommended by **Magnetic Flux** for the truth.

I understood there was to be no math, so will someone figure the death rate per 1000 for me? Then I will make sure I am surrounded at all times by the requisite # of thousands.

Gezhundeit, y’all.

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**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-cold-and-i-keep-hearing-about-sars/164671/43 "2003-03-31T00:03:01Z")

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I’m not sure where I heard this from, but I understand the Rolling Stones cancelled a series of concerts in some Asian country because they were afraid of **SARS**.

[cynical snort]After all these years of partaking in too many drugs/too much alcohol, they’re suddenly worried about their health?[/cynical snort]

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