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The study also revealed that while a new vaccine represents a temporary stop-gap measure, in the long-term, heavy use of antibiotics will continue to decrease their effectiveness.
“Somewhere between 30 and 100 percent of kids less than five have it at any given time,” he said, adding that the percentage decreases slightly in later years because of better hygiene and a new vaccine for children against some strains of the bacteria...
There is hope that a vaccine released in 2000—effective against most of the strains with a high percentage of antibiotic resistance—will help to reduce the number of untreatable cases, she said.
But what makes SARS so frightening to scientists and the public is how much is still unknown about it, including where it came from, exactly how it spreads, how long its incubation period lasts (and thus how long a victim has been contagious when symptoms appear) and whether a vaccine...
So while public-health officials stay on high alert for any new cases, researchers are trying to erase any lingering uncertainty about the ultimate cause of SARS. Several kinds of diagnostic test are nearly ready. A vaccine against the coronavirus is already under development. And epidemiologists in Asia, Europe and...