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...anti-SARS drugs, and HKU plans to begin animal-testing some of the most effective compounds soon. But the real value of the study is the clearer picture it offers of the SARS virus and the blueprint it provides for research responses to any future emerging diseases, like avian flu. "We can react more rapidly, and we can find new drugs that specifically target the disease," Kao says. "If there's a new virus, we can jump onto this...
...avian flu's deadly H5N1 strain claimed its 20th victim in Vietnam? The Vietnamese government doesn't appear particularly eager to know. Officially, the government says it is waiting for the last in a series of tests to confirm that a 14-month-old boy died Sept. 5 of H5N1 bird flu. Yet one Vietnamese health official told TIME the real cause for the delay is the desire to avoid a fresh bird-flu controversy before an Asian-European summit in Hanoi next month. "For the time being, we are just identifying it as flu type...
...Asian governments need to unite on the issue, because bird flu isn't going away. Outbreaks surfaced last week in Malaysia and again in Thailand, where an 18-year-old became the country's ninth person to die from the virus. News on the research front has been worrying, too. Recent experiments in the Netherlands have shown that cats can carry and spread the H5N1 virus, while South Korean scientists have linked their outbreak this past winter to migratory ducks. Such ducks have a natural resistance to the flu, so they can potentially spread the virus over wide areas without...
...musical and creating a film workshop-cum-garden with a view of Lake Victoria near Kampala, in Uganda?all in addition to being a long-distance mother and wife to her family in New York City. Meanwhile, she's been up all night in her Bombay hotel with viral flu and a temperature of 39?C. "I don't stand around chewing my nails," she grins. "That's the beauty of a full life...
...know there will be a pandemic; we just don't know when it will be." DICK THOMPSON, World Health Organization spokesman, on last week's revelation that avian flu has spread to pigs in China, exacerbating fears that it might also infect a large number of humans...