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...appearance of any new infectious disease is cause for concern, there is no need to panic--especially in the U.S. Of the 115 or so Americans suspected of having SARS, all have either recently traveled to Asia or come into direct, face-to-face contact with a SARS patient...
...throng of paramilitary guards. A doctor then directed him to their quarry: a young woman bandaged and covered in a white blanket. Mohammed looked on as a guard, clad all in black, twice slapped the woman. After the man left, Mohammed sneaked back into the room and told the patient not to worry, that he would seek help...
Amanda Bynes didn't need a car or a Kobe when she turned 16. She wanted a starring role in a film, and she was prepared to be patient. She has been called the new Lucille Ball and the next Gilda Radner, thanks to her deft, daft turns on the Nickelodeon skit-com series All That. Nick's Kids Choice awards named her Favorite Television Actress three years running. But, she says, "I want to be looked at as an adult actress. That's why I didn't want to do a big movie when...
...Asia, Europe and North America are piecing together the natural history of SARS. That last effort should be made a lot easier with the Chinese government's decision last week to finally let a who team into Guangdong. Medical detectives may have already found the very first recorded victim - patient zero - a man in the city of Foshan who passed the virus on to four other people before he recovered...
Paradoxically, the existence of superspreaders could be good news: if just a few victims are responsible for the bulk of the outbreak, the disease should be easier to control with aggressive quarantine measures. Some doctors have also postulated that as the virus radiates from the initial patient, it becomes less virulent, meaning that those who come down with second- or third-generation infections may be in less danger. That could explain why in Europe nobody has died and most cases have not turned out to be life threatening. Says Dr. Joseph Sung, chief of clinical medicine at Prince of Wales...