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...emergency room at Toronto's Scarborough Grace hospital was, as usual, overwhelmed and understaffed when a man arrived the night of March 7. The triage nurse who first looked at Tse Chi Kwai, 43, immediately escorted him into the E.R. "He had a fever and a cough, and he was having a hard time catching his breath," says Jane Eckersall, 26, the principal nurse who treated Tse that evening. "And he looked scared." Tse had reason to be. On March 5, his mother died at home after suffering what had been diagnosed as a chest infection. A day before...
Pollack was found when authorities started to trace people who may have been exposed to Tse. By that time he was already on his way back to Scarborough Grace with a burning fever. Pollack was isolated, but the E.R. staff apparently didn't check his wife Rose, 73. She was getting sick too. (Both would soon die from SARS.) When she took her husband into the E.R.'s waiting room, she sat near a man who was accompanied by two sons; all three were members of the 500-strong Toronto chapter of a largely Filipino Roman Catholic group, the Bukas...
...What is SARS? According to WHO, SARS is a virus that affects the respiratory tract (lungs), causing a dry cough, shortness of breath, stiffness, fever, loss of appetite and malaise. The symptoms are very similar to those associated with the flu, except that SARS can appear as pneumonia in chest x-rays...
...long as the story was good, it didn't matter who the protagonist was," says Lurene Thomas, mother of Henry, 11. "But he would never, never pick up a book with a girl on the cover to read." For his part, Henry says he didn't much care for Fever 1793. "It didn't matter that it had a female character," he says. "I just thought it was poorly written and not challenging at all." Still, the mothers say that part of the fun of being in the group is challenging themselves and their sons to read books outside their...
...turned out to be life threatening. Says Dr. Joseph Sung, chief of clinical medicine at 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...