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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

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Alternative News:

• Research In Hong Kong Emphasises Need Of Mask Protection - Doctor's Guide, 5/1/03 - See Surgical masks at drugstore.com.
• Surgical Masks Likely to Protect Against SARS - Medscape, 5/1/03
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), What To Do If You Become Infected - Life Extension Foundation, 4/22/03
• Scared of SARS? - Dr. Weil, 4/8/03 - "The CDC recommends washing your hands frequently to guard against infection. This is always good advice, especially during cold and flu season. These infections spread when sick people touch their noses or mouths and then touch surfaces such as doorknobs, telephones or elevator buttons. If you’re the next one to touch these objects, you can pick up the bug"

Other News:

• Report: SARS Can Spread Through Air - WebMD, 4/21/04
• SARS Virus May Spread Easily on Flights - WebMD, 12/17/03
• Undetected SARS Can Lead To Significant Number Of Cases In Short Period - Doctor's Guide, 8/1/03
• Interferon-Beta Shows Activity Against SARS-Associated Coronavirus - Doctor's Guide, 7/28/03
• Good Chance SARS Will Return in Fall - Doctor's Guide, 7/17/03
• Glycyrrhzin Shows Promise As Treatment For SARS - Doctor's Guide, 7/7/03
• World Health Organization Asks: Can SARS Be Eradicated Or Eliminated? - Doctor's Guide, 6/20/03 - "Experience with many other infectious diseases, including smallpox and poliomyelitis, has demonstrated that complete eradication of an infectious disease is possible only when three precise requirements can be met ... First, an effective intervention capable of interrupting transmission - ideally, a vaccine - must be available. Second, easy-to-use diagnostic tools are needed, with sufficient sensitivity and specificity to detect levels of infection that can lead to transmission of the disease. Finally, infection of humans must be essential to the life-cycle of the causative agent - if the chain of human-to-human transmission is broken, the agent cannot survive"
• Outbreaks In The Initial "Hot Zones" Indicate That SARS Can Be Contained - Doctor's Guide, 5/14/03
• SARS virus mutating quickly into 2 forms - USA Today, 5/3/03
• SARS May be Milder in Children - WebMD, 4/29/03
• Health Canada Rescinds Routine Access to Ribavirin - Doctor's Guide, 4/29/03 - "there is no data to support the continued use of ribavirin outside of clinical trials at this time"
• CDC Issues SARS Travel Alert for Toronto - WebMD, 4/22/03 - "The CDC has issued a new travel alert for travelers to Toronto, which is the epicenter of the Canadian outbreak of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) that has infected 139 people and caused 13 deaths in that country" - That's almost a 10% fatality rate.
• The Long Shadow Of SARS - CBS News, 4/22/03 - "And it gets worse. There are some researchers who think the virus can mutate - indeed, it may already have done so. That means any treatment that works today could be useless tomorrow. And because it's a virus, like the common cold, there is no "cure.""
• Ribavirin May Be Treatment of Choice for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, For Now - Doctor's Guide, 4/17/03 - "it is likely ribavirin will be the recommended treatment choice for now" - That's expensive stuff .
• SARS Likely Spread Through Pipes - Intelihealth, 4/17/03 - "A SARS patient with diarrhea infected other people in a Hong Kong apartment complex as the disease apparently spread into homes through a sewage pipe linked to poorly sealed water drains"
• Coronavirus Never Before Seen In Humans Is Cause Of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - Doctor's Guide, 4/16/03
• Hong Kong Officials Launch Investigation After SARS Kills Younger, Fitter Patients - Intelihealth, 4/15/03 - "one expert voiced fears that the virus believed to be causing severe acute respiratory illness has mutated ... six of eight people whose deaths were reported over the weekend ranged in age from 35 to 52 and had no prior health problems"
• Vaccine For Mystery Illness To Take Years - Intelihealth, 4/8/03
• Evidence Found That Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Is Due To New Coronavirus - Doctor's Guide, 4/8/03
• Experts Predict Spread Of Mystery Illness - Intelihealth, 4/7/03 - "many experts reluctantly conclude it is likely if not inevitable that it eventually will spread everywhere ... While many are infected through face-to-face contact, evidence is mounting that the virus may also spread through the air or be picked up from contaminated surfaces ... it could grow less virulent as it reproduces inside the human body and then passes on, or it might grow worse"
• Physicians Urged to Prepare for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - Doctor's Guide, 4/7/03 - "suggested having only one person screen patients presenting with respiratory symptoms for possible SARS exposure ... also have only one nurse work with suspected SARS patients to minimize the involvement of healthcare workers"
• CDC Faces Issues Posed by SARS - Doctor's Guide, 4/6/03
• Control of SARS lies in identifying 'super spreaders' - USA Today, 4/5/03
• China Kept SARS Secret - CBS News, 4/7/03 - "The world might not have noticed SARS, except for what happened at the Metropole Hotel in Hong Kong. A Chinese doctor, unaware he was infected, traveled there. Somehow, maybe something as ordinary as coughing in a crowded elevator, he passed the infection on to a half-dozen people from various countries. Among them was a couple visiting from Toronto, Canada ... They boarded flights home and SARS started spreading at the speed of a jet plane"
• Bush Allows Quarantine of SARS Patients - WebMD, 4/4/03
• WHO Issues SARS Travel Warning - WebMD, 4/2/03