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...global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) continues to rage, with more than 1,500 people infected--and 54 dead--in 13 countries, including at least 50 suspected cases in the U.S. Dr. Carlo Urbani, the World Health Organization doctor who first identified the outbreak, died of the disease last week. There was hopeful news as travel curbs helped contain the illness and investigators announced they had identified a new virus, part of the coronavirus family (linked to the common cold), as the likely cause. But some of that progress could come unraveled, thanks to a decision by Hong...
...Hong Kong's "bird flu" was a virus that was part human, part avian. Much luck, hard scientific labor and prompt containment measures prevented that outbreak from turning into a global catastrophe. Next time we might not be so fortunate. Medical records dating back to the 18th century show waves of influenza rolling westward from Asia through Russia into Europe with disturbing regularity. Three or four times a century, a pandemic spreads from flu's heartland. So statistically speaking, since the last reassorted strain emerged in Hong Kong in 1968, we're due for another...
...Assignment: The SARS Outbreak...
...people in Europe alone. No epidemic, however?not even the Black Death of the Middle Ages?compares in mortality to the "Spanish flu" of 1918. Around the world, 40 million died of it within one year. Unusually, the 1918 flu did not come from Asia. The first outbreak began at a barracks in Kansas in the spring. The second, most virulent strain of the disease emerged simultaneously in September in Boston, Massachusetts; in Brest on the Atlantic coast of France; and in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone...
...exploit huge oil fields in Iraq, negotiated under Saddam Hussein but never implemented. Don't expect the U.S. to honor them. RICHEMONT: An end to the war won't end the troubles for this Swiss luxury-goods group, whose brands include Cartier and Montblanc. Even before the Asian flu outbreak - which hits luxury goods by cutting business travel - the company warned profits would be down about 40% because of hard times. Analysts say Richemont hasn't yet instilled the financial discipline needed to weather the downturn. EUROPEAN AIRLINES: Except for some low-cost carriers, Europe's airlines have...