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...maybe it is" stories. Can a person be "slightly exposed" to SARS, as the WHO stated late last week? Sure. But doesn't that mean this is a SARS case? Judging by two positive antibody results taken from samples sent to Hong Kong last week, the Guangzhou patient was almost certainly exposed to SARS or a coronavirus genetically very similar to SARS. But the WHO has been reluctant to say so, and that has begun to rankle some Chinese health officials...
...Ever since this case surfaced, Guangzhou health authorities have treated it as SARS. The hospital has isolated the patient. Clinicians have taken appropriate infection-control measures. Guangzhou hospitals are the most experienced in the world at treating SARS. Guangzhou laboratories, however, are not up to the same standards, and that has led to suspected lab contamination as a possible cause for the positive tests that initially suggested this was a SARS case. Some Guangdong officials interpret as disrespectful the WHO's unwillingness to confirm their labs' findings. The WHO, which has no laboratories of its own and relies on collaborating...
...implications of the current case are so troubling that the diagnosis has been taken out of local hands. Unlike the previous laboratory-based SARS infections in Taiwan and Singapore, the patient in this instance had no known contact with the virus. The pressing question is where did this infection come from? "If this is SARS," says Huang Wenjie, director of respiratory diseases at Guangzhou General Military Hospital, "that means it is out in the community, and this may be a seasonal disease." One that, in all likelihood, won't be eradicated any time soon. The WHO is awaiting another series...
...Because of drugs to treat AIDS, the idea that you can give humans a designed protease inhibitor that humans can tolerate is encouraging,” he said. “This is especially true with anthrax because an anthrax patient might need treatment for only one or two days and could therefore tolerate greater levels of side effects than could an AIDS patient, who would need to tolerate treatment for years...
Drafted units can be kept together for only a short time and invariably march to war as random collections of strangers. Our soldiers performed so superbly in Iraq because they were seasoned. Good soldiers, like good wine, can be produced only with careful cultivation and patient aging. Unfortunately, amateur armies learn to fight only by fighting. Inevitably, the cost of that education is too horrific for the American people to bear...