Simon my boyfriend works in one of Western Australias largest Path centres and beleive me there are alot more scary contagions there then SARS, perspective wise SARS is about as scary as being killed by Anthrax. More people die worldwide by car crash's a day, more people die from unprotected sex a day, more people die from suicide daily. People have contracted SARS and then got over it far more people have recovered than have died from it. If 50% of people who contracted SARS died then we could start comparing it to the Spanish Flu but even then it wouldnt be that close. And Simon there is alot to be said of imunisation, people work all their lives to create protection from things we don't need to to know about, these people deserve alot of credit.
I think alot of people watch and read the news to much, most of it has been added to and taken away from and just purly changed to make it more interesting.