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...Development of a fast, reliable diagnostic test is still many months away, so doctors are forced to diagnose SARS cases on the basis of symptoms, such as high fever, that can be easily confused with other ailments. Some patients?particularly elderly ones, who often suffer a host of maladies?can go undetected. Toronto shows the damage that can be done with a single slipup. "It really tells you how unforgiving this disease is," says Dr. Allison McGeer, a microbiologist who heads Mount Sinai Hospital's infection-control department in Toronto...
SARS is caused by a corona virus and produces fever and flu-like symptoms. The virus, likely transmitted by aerosol droplets, had killed 764 people and infected more than 8,000 as of last week. The disease is thought to have originated in China last fall...
...Visa cardholders, as well as private and corporate clients. The members-only section of its website attempts to furnish these clients with the information they lack, tracking every virulent pox and security scare in the region. To browse it is to enter a landscape of meningococcal meningitis and dengue fever, of bush wars and (inevitably) the increased risk of terrorism...
...Asian hospital wards and ICUs. Diagnostic tests are still slow or unreliable. Treatment for the disease?a combination of steroids and ribavirin?hasn?t proved very effective and has barely been modified since the early weeks of the outbreak. The best tools for stopping SARS are still face masks, fever checks and quarantine?19th century medicine for a 21st century disease...
...steam. Toronto was removed from the World Health Organization's (WHO) list of travel danger zones, and a WHO official said it appeared the disease was waning even in hard-hit Hong Kong, where the number of new infections had fallen to just a handful a day. But the fever is spiking in Taiwan. Since the Hoping Hospital outbreak, the number of SARS victims has soared from 28 to 308, a 91% increase in just three weeks, while the number of deaths from the disease has leapt from zero to 35. Taiwan now has the third highest number of cases...