2003-05-19
... ? Lessons of AIDS help fight against SARS - smh.com.auHIV/AIDS and SARS are respectively the last major new disease of the 20th century and the first of the 21st century, and they have intriguing parallels. They are not limited by climate or geography; there is no cure or vaccine for either; and they have the ability to spread quickly and insidiously. Their lethality is of course different, yet they each can ruin lives, socially disrupt a vulnerable country and cripple its economy.