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...Almost every week for the past year, Yi, a microbiology associate professor at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has been taking the old Kowloon-Canton Railway up to Shenzhen and Guangzhou to carry out his fieldwork. It was Yi, along with the Shenzhen Centers for Disease Control (CDC), who in May took samples from Shenzhen's Dongmen Market and made the discovery that the masked palm civet, as well as the raccoon dog and hog badger, carried a virus remarkably similar to the coronavirus that causes SARS. That research, initially hailed as a breakthrough in establishing the zoonotic origins...
...seasonality was a factor in the replication of the SARS coronavirus, he waited until October?about a year since the first cases appeared?and began returning to the Guangdong wild animal markets every week with his black satchel bag full of syringes, swabs and sample vials. Working with the Guangzhou CDC and the Shenzhen CDC, he paid $6 for each animal he would test to an animal trader who supplied Dongmen Market. In Guangzhou's Xinyuan Market, Yi would buy animals and haul them away in cages to the Guangzhou CDC labs, where he would gather samples before sending...
...this fresh case, a 32-year-old TV journalist recovering at Guangzhou People's No. 8 Hospital, has reminded us again that diseases can be political infections. This past week has seen an almost comically confusing fusillade of "it's SARS", "no it isn't" or "maybe it is" stories. Can a person be "slightly exposed" to SARS, as the WHO stated late last week? Sure. But doesn't that mean this is a SARS case? Judging by two positive antibody results taken from samples sent to Hong Kong last week, the Guangzhou patient was almost certainly exposed to SARS...
...Ever since this case surfaced, Guangzhou health authorities have treated it as SARS. The hospital has isolated the patient. Clinicians have taken appropriate infection-control measures. Guangzhou hospitals are the most experienced in the world at treating SARS. Guangzhou laboratories, however, are not up to the same standards, and that has led to suspected lab contamination as a possible cause for the positive tests that initially suggested this was a SARS case. Some Guangdong officials interpret as disrespectful the WHO's unwillingness to confirm their labs' findings. The WHO, which has no laboratories of its own and relies on collaborating...
...local hands. Unlike the previous laboratory-based SARS infections in Taiwan and Singapore, the patient in this instance had no known contact with the virus. The pressing question is where did this infection come from? "If this is SARS," says Huang Wenjie, director of respiratory diseases at Guangzhou General Military Hospital, "that means it is out in the community, and this may be a seasonal disease." One that, in all likelihood, won't be eradicated any time soon. The WHO is awaiting another series of antibody tests and will probably confirm the case this week, in a joint press conference...