One taxi driver who ferried a SARS patient from the airport to Singapore General Hospital has been the subject of a manhunt in Singapore. It has even caused the public to shun public taxis!

This is how paranoid people have become about SARS. It is extremely scary. This is going to have a bad effect on the already bad Singapore economy which is still trying to cope with the fallout from the Iraq war. People who are known to have contact with diagnosed SARS patients have been forced to stay at home, by law!. The government is trying to trace some Chinese passengers who were in the flight from South China with the SARS patient. Looks like they cannot be traced yet. They could be tourists and might already be in Malaysia or some other country.

Hope this dreaded atypical pneumonia does not hit Malaysia that badly. I'm sure carriers are already in the country. Maybe citizens of certain countries have better resistance. Even in Indonesia there are no confirmed cases yet.