A family of 4 visited Saudi Arabia and flew back to Denmark, only to find out they have a deadly new strain of the SARS virus.  Despite what the Saudi government says (see yesterday’s article), this is in fact dangerous, and it is in the same viral family as SARS, even though it also attacks the kidneys.  A man who contracted the virus in Qatar was flown to the UK, where they diagnosed his condition as SARS.

That means I have to officially update the outbreak leader board:

1.  Pertussis – “Whooping Cough”
2.  Fatal rash caused by staph infection
3.  “Flesh Eating Bacteria”, also a staph infection
4.  The Bubonic Plague
5.  Ebola
6.  Capnocytophaga – Woman lost hands and feet from dog saliva
7.  Untreatable Gonorrhea
8.  Kid died from a brain destroying ameoba, found in a lake
9.  West Nile Virus
10.  Hantavirus
11.  Rabies
12.  Typhus
13.  Legionnaires Disease
14.  New Jersey Superbug
15.  Popcorn Lung
16.  Saudi Arabian SARS