Word: hantaviruses
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...monitoring the use of select agents - but according to critics, it's working with an outdated list. The last revision to the list occurred in 2005, with the addition of the re-created influenza virus that killed some 40 million people in 1918. Still missing from the register: SARS, Hantavirus and other deadly viruses, which, as a consequence, are subject to virtually no regulation...
...SARS in perspective, plain influenza (which comes from southeast Asia and probably exploited the same mechanism that SARS did to become infectious) kills between a quarter and half a million people each year. The deadly Hantavirus, which was discovered in the U.S. in 1993, kills half of its victims. By contrast, SARS kills only about four percent if its victims, and has infected about 2,700 people as of Saturday...
...their waiting rooms. If HHS, the CDC and other government agencies are jostling one another on the podium, the message is often mixed. And when you toss in the local police and the FBI--as was the case with anthrax--that mixed message turns to gibberish. During the hantavirus outbreak of 1993, the government handled the problem well, with Dr. C.J. Peters, then chief of special pathogens at the CDC, taking the lead in answering questions, even though the HHS Secretary was technically the senior health authority working on the problem. "We decided that I would speak for HHS," Peters...
...Senate to pass the meager emissions-cut treaty hammered out -- with Gore's help -- at Kyoto. In more immediate terms, warmer weather also means more disease. The World Health Organization is already reporting a jump in the number of malaria cases, not to mention cholera and the deadly hantavirus. All the more reason for Gore to ride the El Nino bandwagon -- and for you to turn the fan up another notch...
DEER MICE: In the U.S. Southwest, rains have made life easier for this carrier of the deadly hantavirus...