I'm sure Japan has a few, but I haven't heard 
word one on the news about it.

Anyway, the other day I got in a large box from 
Hong Kong.  My uncle Dave is living with me for 
now has become super-paranoid about SARS 
thinking its gonna whipe out the world (he's 
kinda a health nut).  Anyway I decided to play 
some mind games with him so I left the box on 
the kitchen table where everyone comes in and 
out of the house.

Dave comes walking in the door, looks at the 
box, and just walks on by.  I guess he didn't 
realize where it came from at first.  So I left 
the box on the table for about 3 hours and 
finally told him, "Hey man, you gonna open that 
box for me?"  He said, "Why?"  I said, "Dude!  
Its from Hong Kong!  I don't wanna touch it!"

Next thing I know the guy is flipping out.  "Get 
that @#%#$% outta the house" he kept saying 
while locked in his room.

Well I let him suffer for another 2 hours (all 
the while locked in his room) and I decided to 
open up the box and get the goodies out.  I took 
the goodies in my room leaving the empty box on 
the table.  I wasn't in my room for 2 mintues 
and went back in the kitchen to clean up the 
mess and throw the box away.

My uncle (with plastic gloves on) threw the box 
outside in the middle of the driveway!  I told 
him, "Way to spread the epidemic Einstein!"

The whole time I was laughing so hard and Dave 
just kept getting more and more mad.  Talk about 
paranoid.

Anyway, keep in mind its nothing more than an 
advanced flu-like illness with about a 4% 
mortality rate.  Almost all the people who have 
died from the disease were elderly or had weak 
immune systems to begin with.  Its not much 
worse than the mortality rate for the regular 
flew among the same demographics.  At least 
thats what the news guy tells me.  =P