I know or have heard about at least a half dozen people who are canceling overseas travel plans because of concern over the likely US/UK invasion of Iraq.
I’ve been planning to spend a few weeks traveling in China in early June. I’m not so worried about a war affecting those plans.
However, a dangerous virus which seems to have originated in Asia kind of freaks me out.
Warning over killer virus
itv.com
The mystery virus, which causes pneumonia, first struck China’s southern Guangdong province in November when five people died.
“This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat,” WHO director-general Gro Harlem Brundtland said in a statement.
UPDATE: Just visited Joi Ito’s site and saw he’d posted on this, as well. One of his links was to this New York Times article on the virus.