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...CUTE-DUO ALERT...
...survey finds that most Americans are confused when the Department recommends finding a “sheltering in place” or making “evacuation plans” when there is a high, so-called “orange,” level of alert for attacks. Seventy-three percent of Americans surveyed were aware of such an alert...
Since news of the first cases of SARS--short for severe acute respiratory syndrome--began emerging from mainland China a month ago, health authorities around the world have gone on high alert. For the first time in its 55-year history, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended last week that travelers avoid nonessential trips to an entire region--China's Guangdong province and Hong Kong, right next door--for fear that they might contract and further spread the infectious agent...
...identifying respiratory diseases because the city is located so near the rich agricultural zones of southeastern China, where pigs, poultry and millions of people live in close proximity. Illnesses like influenza routinely jump from animals to humans, which is why new strains of flu often originate in Asia. Alert to the fact that something strange was going on, authorities in Hong Kong quickly notified WHO and began trying to determine how the disease arrived on the island and how it might be driven...
...while public-health officials stay on high alert for any new cases, researchers are trying to erase any lingering uncertainty about the ultimate cause of SARS. Several kinds of diagnostic test are nearly ready. A vaccine against the coronavirus is already under development. And epidemiologists in Asia, Europe and North America are piecing together the natural history of SARS. That last effort should be made a lot easier with the Chinese government's decision last week to finally let a who team into Guangdong. Medical detectives may have already found the very first recorded victim - patient zero...