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...Scientists may be closing the gap, though. Last week German scientists reported that an experimental cold-fighting drug might be able to stop the virus from replicating inside infected cells. Earlier in Hong Kong and mainland China, renowned AIDS researcher Dr. David Ho announced that a modified HIV treatment had the potential to block the virus from infecting human cells in the first place. Although both treatments are still unproven, they show that the SARS coronavirus is vulnerable?and that tapping its genome will eventually reveal its weakest strand. ?The interesting part is the fact that you can go from...
...even with mainland China?s somewhat lax regulations for drug approval, it will likely be a year or more before the peptide fusion inhibitor could be used for patients. And that assumes the coronavirus won?t evade the treatment through mutation. Dr. Edison Liu, executive director of Singapore?s Genome Institute, which recently published a study comparing the coronavirus genome in several different regions, says, ?If the receptor interaction is changed so that the virus uses a different receptor or has a different region to which it binds, it?ll evade the peptide...
...Hoping Hospital outbreak, the number of SARS victims has soared from 28 to 308, a 91% increase in just three weeks, while the number of deaths from the disease has leapt from zero to 35. Taiwan now has the third highest number of cases in the world, behind mainland China and Hong Kong, and enough to earn a WHO travel advisory. The epidemic also claimed Taiwan's first political casualties: Twu Shiing-jer, Minister of Health, and Chen Tzay-jinn, director of the CDC, resigned over criticism they were too slow to implement strict infection-control measures in hospitals...
...Yenching’s decision is the latest in a series of SARS-related restrictions at the University. Although the University has lifted its ban on travel to Toronto, Singapore, and Vietnam, the moratorium is still in effect for travel to mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong...
While the University ban was loosened over the last two weeks to allow travel to Toronto, Vietnam and Singapore, the moratorium remains in effect for mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan...