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...observation ward. Next to him was Joseph Pollack, 76, who had been complaining of an irregular heartbeat. That night Pollack almost certainly got SARS, as did another man in the room, a coronary patient whom authorities refer to as Mr. D., 77. Both Pollack and Mr. D. would infect many others...
...SARS, from which he died on March 13, and he was about to set off a chain reaction that would infect 138 Ontario residents, leave a total of 20 dead and force more than 10,000 people into quarantine over a four-week period. How could the situation in Toronto--a center of advanced medicine--have gone so wrong so quickly? Bad luck explains most of Toronto's tale, but not all of it. As a TIME investigation has found, medical staff members early on missed key opportunities that, if taken, might have drastically slowed the spread of the disease...
...mystery is where the disease came from. Coronaviruses have long been known to veterinary medicine because they routinely infect livestock, ducks and other domestic animals. In humans they had never caused anything worse than a cold, but this strain is clearly different. Given belated access to Chinese records just three weeks ago, WHO teams are looking carefully at the records of human cases. They also plan to conduct more detailed studies of unusual infections in animal populations. If they can find the animal hosts, they might be able to prevent new animal-to-human transmissions...
Scientists have identified a previously unknown virus in the coronavirus family as the primary cause of SARS. Coronaviruses often infect animals and until now caused only mild illness in people. It may turn out, however, that SARS results from simultaneous infection by several microbes...
...SARS a serious concern? Any infectious disease that spreads by the respiratory route on aerosol droplets has to be taken seriously, because one individual can infect many others. The major risk factor for acquiring the infection is breathing. In the absence of an effective drug or vaccine, we know that some infectious diseases similarly transmitted by the respiratory route have wreaked havoc: 20-40 million deaths from the influenza pandemic of 1918, the decimation of the population of Hawaii by the first introduction of measles and the lingering epidemic of tuberculosis that afflicts 8 million people annually now. Even with...