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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
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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
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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
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Undetected SARS Can Lead To Significant Number Of Cases In Short Period
- Doctor's Guide, 8/1/03
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Interferon-Beta Shows Activity Against SARS-Associated Coronavirus -
Doctor's Guide, 7/28/03
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Good Chance SARS Will Return in Fall - Doctor's Guide, 7/17/03
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Glycyrrhzin Shows Promise As Treatment For SARS - Doctor's Guide, 7/7/03
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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"
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Outbreaks In The Initial "Hot Zones" Indicate That SARS Can Be Contained
- Doctor's Guide, 5/14/03
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SARS virus mutating quickly into 2 forms - USA Today, 5/3/03
- SARS May be
Milder in Children - WebMD, 4/29/03
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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.
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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.""
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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 .
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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"
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Coronavirus Never Before Seen In Humans Is Cause Of Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome - Doctor's Guide, 4/16/03
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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"
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Vaccine For Mystery Illness To Take Years - Intelihealth, 4/8/03
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Evidence Found That Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Is Due To New
Coronavirus - Doctor's Guide, 4/8/03
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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"
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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"
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CDC Faces Issues Posed by SARS - Doctor's Guide, 4/6/03
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Control of SARS lies in identifying 'super spreaders' - USA Today,
4/5/03
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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
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