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Doctors are using the same antibiotics, antivirals and steroids that they give to patients with "atypical pneumonia." Patients are isolated in specially ventilated hospital rooms, and medical workers wear masks, gowns, gloves and goggles to prevent further transmission...
DIED. RUSTY DRAPER, 80, country singer of the 1950s and '60s, responsible for such million sellers as Gambler's Guitar and The Shifting, Whispering Sands; of pneumonia; in Bellevue, Wash...
...Among the patients was an unidentified local man who was admitted to Ward 8A?where the hospital had sequestered pneumonia patients?with a suspected case of SARS on March 15. Test results indicated the man, who suffered from kidney disease, had the flu not pneumonia. He was discharged. In fact, he had SARS, and health officials now think that when he later visited family in the Amoy Gardens apartment complex, he passed the disease to his brother and sister-in-law?sparking a virulent outbreak among residents. Some 250 people in the apartment complex came down with SARS, giving...
...Block E tested positive for the coronavirus?or through indirect contact. On March 24, the kidney patient's brother and his wife were diagnosed with SARS; three days later, families living in apartments five floors directly above and below the brother's apartment had also developed the potentially deadly pneumonia. Investigators speculate that Hong Kong's high-rises, with their sealed windows and often leaky sewage pipes, might be ideal transmission grounds for viruses...
...viewpoint). Although that flu's mortality rate was only 2%, the virus had infected so many people that it felled 40 million victims in 18 months?more than the total death toll from combat in World War I. So far, SARS' fatality rate is 4%, comparable to normal, noncontagious pneumonia's. Optimists point out that in the three weeks that SARS has gripped Hong Kong, about 150 people in the territory have succumbed to normal pneumonia. But what spooks medical experts is how little they know about SARS and how much damage it could still wreak. For places like Hong...