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...illness usually begins with a fever of 100.4ºF or higher (sometimes with chills), headache, body aches and malaise. Patients develop a dry cough and difficulty breathing; some get diarrhea. Most people start to recover after five or six days...
Most cases seem to be passed on through direct, close contact. When people sneeze or cough, they send virus-laden droplets of fluid into the air, which others nearby inhale. SARS may also be spread through water or sewage or contaminated objects like doorknobs...
...outside the city. In Canada, hospitals have closed to control the disease's spread, and health officials everywhere are looking hard at anyone who flies in from Asia and quarantining those with symptoms of infection--a fever of 100.4°F or higher, headaches and body aches, a dry cough and shortness of breath...
Symptoms of SARS include a sudden onset of high fever, dry cough and shortness of breath, the WHO website said, and it is spread through direct contact with an infected person’s secretions...
...second- and thirdhand, the virus might lose its potency. Says Dr. Joseph Sung, chief of service at the Prince of Wales Hospital: "I'm quite convinced that some people might have contracted the infection, but not the disease. Some may develop mild symptoms, like a little bit of cough and no fever; some may just feel a little tired for a day or two." In another small piece of good news, doctors at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta announced late last week that they had developed two tests to detect the presence of the suspected...