Health Workers Want Fed Regs on SARS

Reuters news service reports that U.S. health-care workers are requesting OSHA to set standards for the containment of air-borne illnesses in hospital and other medical settings, including isolation rooms and other technologies.Though the pervasiveness of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) hasn't reached epidemic proportions here in the US, health care workers are nevertheless edgy over the contagious and sometimes fatal respiratory illness, and some of the other newer, deadly, diseases that are spreading around the world, that may be transmitted merely by breathing. The virus that cause...