Tim over at SARSWatch.Org has got permission to reprint an article I have been telling a lot of you folks about.

The article is by Dr. Donald S. Burke a professor of international health and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland

As summer approaches and the SARS epidemic declines, there will be an understandable urge to celebrate. But we must eschew premature celebrations and self-congratulations. History teaches us that the devastating 1918 influenza epidemic began with a modest "herald wave" in spring that faded away during the summer, only to explode and wreck global devastation the following fall and winter. It is possible that SARS, now seeded around the globe, could follow a similar pattern and fade away this summer, only to erupt again next winter.

The coming summer lull in SARS affords an extraordinary opportunity. If we can detect, diagnose and effectively isolate every contagious case during the period when the infection rate is at its lowest, it is possible that we can truly eradicate SARS, not just for the short term, but permanently.
Read the full article here http://www.sarswatch.org/comments.php?id=P152_0_1_0