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...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...
SARS continues to infect people throughout the world. As of yesterday, the number of deaths due to SARS had climbed to 217 (up from 182 as of Saturday) and 495 new cases were reported over the weekend, according to the World Health Organization...
...Beijing's emergency plan may be backfiring spectacularly with SARS, which has burst out of China's national boundary to kill 119 people and infect 2,960 people worldwide by the end of last week. And even as the deadly pneumonia proliferates across the world--Africa is the latest continent afflicted with the bug--China continues to massively underreport its SARS epidemic. As late as last Saturday, China's health authorities continued to stick to an accounting of 60 SARS deaths and about 1,300 cases--even though China's Premier Wen Jiabao visited You'an Hospital, where medical staff...
...HAVE SYMPTOMS, CAN YOU STILL INFECT OTHERS...
Mild cases would also act like natural vaccines, conferring immunity on the patients. When 70% or so of a population has immunity - what epidemiologists call herd immunity - a virus is considered burned out: it can't spread further because there is almost no one left to infect. In the meantime, hospitals are trying to prevent the disease from taking root by isolating patients and using gowns, masks, goggles and gloves religiously - techniques that so far have proved extremely effective at preventing transmission...