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...virus. Those measures included quarantining more than 1,500 people who had close encounters with SARS victims, confining them to their homes under threat of heavy fines; closing all schools, and medical screening for all travelers entering the city. When new cases were discovered, a team of 100 "contact tracers" tracked down not only patients' immediate families, friends and neighbors but also their office colleagues and favorite food hawkers, and placed them in quarantine, too. Anyone suspected of having SARS is transported to the hospital in an ambulance...
...grip on this puzzling killer. Doctors emerged from their labs to announce they had identified the likely pathogen that causes SARS: a mutation of the coronavirus that normally causes nothing more harmful than the common cold. Researchers averred that while the disease was contagious, it chiefly required close contact with an infected patient to be spread, most likely through respiratory droplets sprayed into the air by a cough or sneeze. Finally, quarantines were instituted in Singapore, Canada and, after much dithering, in Hong Kong, leading to predictions that the disease might be fenced in. For a few promising days...
...hopes that the worst might be over collapsed with the outbreak at Amoy Gardens. Clusters of cases began proliferating in the 33-floor housing estate among residents who had never met, forcing researchers to question the theory that the disease was only passed through close human contact. Investigators had to consider that other, more pernicious transmission modes might be more prevalent than first thought. Could it be spread through contact with contaminated surfaces, such as elevator buttons? Through water, possibly flowing in sewage pipes? Through rodent feces, as is the case for many other viruses? Or how about through aerosolized...
...human feces.) Once flushed down the toilet, the waste may have contaminated the apartment block's sewage system through faulty plumbing. Because the virus seems to survive longer in organic matter than in the open air, investigators theorize that rats, cockroaches and other vermin may have come into contact with the sewage and spread the virus by traveling up the vertical shaft that runs along the side of Block E, the high-rise most affected by SARS. The vermin could have contaminated common objects in the block, which could have then infected residents. Investigators are also exploring the possibility that...
...agenda during the policy setting and revising process. As Dean, Lewis currently chairs eight committees and is a guest or a member of 19 others (as well as regularly attending ten staff meetings), from the Committee on House Life to the Committee on Public Service, which gives him regular contact with students and keeps him constantly thinking about the non-curricular issues that affect students’ everyday life. Dean Benedict H. Gross ’71, tapped by Kirby to assume the new position, will inevitably have to lay the burden of less critical student-faculty committee meetings...