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Multiple strains would not be surprising. This bug's genetic code is based on RNA, a single-stranded molecule very similar to DNA. Unlike DNA, however, RNA has no built-in proofreading mechanism to fix mistakes in the replication process. Most of these don't amount to anything, but every once in a while an error may make the microbe more infectious. Beyond that, says Dr. Robert Webster, chief of virology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., "when a virus comes across to a new host, what does a virus do? It varies like crazy...
...Progress: Beating the Bug...
...China's Failing Health System Travel: SARS Flightmares SARS Riots: Quarantine Blues China: SARS is 'Make or Break' Is SARS Getting Deadlier? Beating Back the Bug China: SARS Nation Guangdong: Beating SARS? Hong Kong: System Failure Shanghai SARS Cases 'Secret' Viruses: Hard to Kill Hong Kong: Keep on Scrubbing...
...China's Failing Health System Travel: SARS Flightmares SARS Riots: Quarantine Blues China: SARS is 'Make or Break' Is SARS Getting Deadlier? Beating Back the Bug China: SARS Nation Guangdong: Beating SARS? Hong Kong: System Failure Shanghai SARS Cases 'Secret' Viruses: Hard to Kill Hong Kong: Keep on Scrubbing...
...China's Failing Health System Travel: SARS Flightmares SARS Riots: Quarantine Blues China: SARS is 'Make or Break' Is SARS Getting Deadlier? Beating Back the Bug China: SARS Nation Guangdong: Beating SARS? Hong Kong: System Failure Shanghai SARS Cases 'Secret' Viruses: Hard to Kill Hong Kong: Keep on Scrubbing...