IT LOOKS increasingly as if the virus that causes SARS is not
going away. Isolating patients and quarantining their contacts
might slow the spread, as it has in Hong Kong and Toronto, but
we've still to see these measures stop new infections. Most
worryingly, as the virus invades poor areas of China and poor
countries, containment will become impossible. Sooner or later,
SARS is coming to a person near you. There is good news, though.
The virus should be vulnerable to a vaccine (see page 4). We
could even develop one in record time. But if past history is
anything to go by, the vaccine will then be sold for a high
price so the rich get it, and the poor don't. It might be a sad
old problem but it is one we need to think about now, if not out
of a sense of justice then pure self-interest. ... To continue
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