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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...
...scientists race to unravel the mysteries of SARS, one issue high on their agenda will be the likelihood that the new virus is a cross-species transmission in which the virus has mutated from its animal carrier so that it can infect humans, who have no immunity from the alien invader. The most obvious examples of this are HIV and influenza, and the latter disease has disturbing parallels with SARS. The flu virus lives usually in the stomachs of waterfowl, and the two are co-adapted?the birds don't get sick. It is widely believed among virologists, however, that...