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...response. In Hong Kong, doctors claim they are successfully combating the disease using the antiviral drug ribavirin to inhibit the virus combined with corticosteroids to check an overstimulated immune response. Ribavirin works by interfering with intracellular viral replication, slowing the infection's spread within the body. The problem, as microbiologist Professor John Tam of CUHK points out, is that "if you stop the replication, that means you stop the function of the cell...
...passing on information such as which drugs worked best on the mainland, Chinese officials might have saved other researchers from weeks of agonizing trial and error. Dr. Ronald Low, microbiologist in chief at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital, believes that earlier Chinese disclosure of case histories could have accelerated development of a treatment. Low says that since his hospital started administering the antiviral medicine ribavirin, patients have stopped dying. "So far, all the patients on this treatment are still alive," he says, "and most of them are showing improvement...
...Such news is an enormous relief for doctors around the world. But experts are warning against complacency, particularly when the extent to which SARS has already spread remains a mystery. Kitty Fung, a microbiologist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, says it's currently impossible to say for certain if efforts to contain the disease within the territory's Prince of Wales Hospital, where the bulk of the SARS victims are being cared for, have been successful. That's despite the fact that much of the huge hospital has been shut down. Stretches of the hospital's normally bustling...
...position in al-Qaeda's murderous meritocracy. He rose to become its chief military planner--and perhaps the world's most dangerous terrorist operative--until Pakistani agents nabbed him at 2:30 a.m. Saturday at a house in Rawalpindi owned by a retired 75-year-old microbiologist. Unlike the wild shoot-out in Pakistan that preceded the capture in September of another al-Qaeda honcho, Ramzi Binalshibh, Mohammed's capture went quietly. Inside the rambling, two-story house, in a neighborhood inhabited by retired army generals, Pakistani Interior Ministry officials say they found Mohammed and another suspected al-Qaeda operative...
...epidemic is miniscule. But if a patient with human flu contracted the avian variety, it could spawn a lethal genetic hybrid. "If it gets as transmittable as human-to-human flu viruses, we are basically looking at a pandemic," says Dr. Malik Peiris, a University of Hong Kong microbiologist. The 1997 outbreak came in the fall; "We were lucky," says Dr. Paul K.S. Chan, a microbiologist with Chinese University of Hong Kong. But now, in the middle of flu season, there is an increased chance of genetic mixing. With experts from the World Health Organization's Global Influenza Surveillance network...