Word: pneumonia
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...What is SARS? According to WHO, SARS is a virus that affects the respiratory tract (lungs), causing a dry cough, shortness of breath, stiffness, fever, loss of appetite and malaise. The symptoms are very similar to those associated with the flu, except that SARS can appear as pneumonia in chest x-rays...
...Beijing's emergency plan may be backfiring spectacularly with SARS, which has burst out of China's national boundary to kill 119 people and infect 2,960 people worldwide by the end of last week. And even as the deadly pneumonia proliferates across the world--Africa is the latest continent afflicted with the bug--China continues to massively underreport its SARS epidemic. As late as last Saturday, China's health authorities continued to stick to an accounting of 60 SARS deaths and about 1,300 cases--even though China's Premier Wen Jiabao visited You'an Hospital, where medical staff...
...country's leadership has already been hurt as the outbreak has been allowed to spread virtually unchecked. "How can we trust Beijing when they lied to us for so long," asks a respiratory specialist surnamed Ma from the western province of Gansu, who is now reviewing recent pneumonia cases in his hospital to see if any of them could have been SARS. "Even though this disease started in our country, we are behind everyone else in the world in trying to treat it." Other doctors from China's interior share his sense of betrayal and distrust. Asked about Shanxi...
Almost half of all infections caused by a bacteria responsible for pneumonia, meningitis and ear infections will be virtually untreatable by next year, according to a study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health...
...diagnosed with pneumonia on March 31 in a hospital in Shenzhen and died en route to a Hong Kong hospital, according to his daughter Michelle...