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We've had a few cases of it here too, but nobody has died from it. I figure I'll wash my hands whenever I visit a store (door handles and knobs carry so many germs, imagine how many hands touch said handles, after coughing into their hands, etc.). So nothing else I can do besidess that, I cannot control me breathing in an infected person's breath while standing next to them, especially if said infected person shows no symptoms. So you can either be a paranoid recluse (which may be socially *weird* but in some ways safe) or just continue with your daily life's activities, again, washing hands frequently,, never touching your face (many viruses get "in" your system through mucus membranes, such as mouth, ears, nose, eyes. So if , say, you touched a door nob, or anything, that many people have touched, if a person who touch said door nob, or anything, had SARS or the flu, the virus would live on said doorknob or anything,,, and transfer itself to anyone else's hands and fingers taht touched it. And if said "toucher" later also touched their face, i.e, their eyes, nose, mouth, or ears, the virus finds its way "in" that way. So it is best off if you wash your hands when you return from a store or touch an object that a lot of other people touch daily.
Take care everyone, knowledge is safety, spread it around. You may still be able to get SARS from being near a person, and breathing in their virus in the air, like if they sneeze or cough, but otherwise, handwashing is at least your best bet overall I think. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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