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There is still no cure. Patients are given supportive care for their symptoms, such as ventilators to aid breathing and fluids to prevent dehydration. Some researchers are searching for drugs that would block coronavirus infections; others are trying to develop a vaccine. Scientists have already sequenced the entire genome of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just The Facts | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

So will the search for a vaccine. The biotech company GenVec announced plans last week to collaborate with NIAID to insert portions of the coronavirus genome into a weakened cold virus. If the proteins generated by these snippets are powerful enough to trigger an effective immune response, then the resulting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Truth About SARS | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

Why is SARS a serious concern? Any infectious disease that spreads by the respiratory route on aerosol droplets has to be taken seriously, because one individual can infect many others. The major risk factor for acquiring the infection is breathing. In the absence of an effective drug or vaccine, we...

Author: By Barry R. Bloom, | Title: SARS and the University | 5/2/2003 | See Source »

With more people dying from motor vehicle accidents and gun injuries than SARS, are we overreacting? I would note that deaths from auto accidents and gun injuries are not increasing exponentially; SARS, as it first evolved, was. The highest priority in any epidemic is to stop transmission to healthy people...

Author: By Barry R. Bloom, | Title: SARS and the University | 5/2/2003 | See Source »

Hodi says follow up studies with the GM-CSF vaccine are currently being performed on patients with lung cancer, melanoma, ovarian cancer and leukemia.

Author: By Carol P. Choy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Researchers Report Promising Vaccine For Cancer Treatment | 4/25/2003 | See Source »

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