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...spread of the deadly virus that causes SARS prompted Harvard this spring to cut funding and other forms of University support for travel to parts of Asia and Canada...

Author: By Yailett Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Restricts Travel Due to SARS Epidemic | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

SARS is caused by a corona virus and produces fever and flu-like symptoms. The virus, likely transmitted by aerosol droplets, had killed 764 people and infected more than 8,000 as of last week. The disease is thought to have originated in China last fall...

Author: By Yailett Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Restricts Travel Due to SARS Epidemic | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

Harvard officials say they have tried to accommodate students whose plans were derailed by the virus...

Author: By Yailett Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Restricts Travel Due to SARS Epidemic | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...coronaviruses from the civets weren't a precise match for the sars virus: they had 29 nucleotides, the building blocks of the viral RNA, that the human viruses lacked, making them only 99.8% similar. A 0.2% variance, however, could be enough to constitute a significant mutation. In addition, their S genes were different from those of the SARS virus; that gene contains the blueprint for the virus's distinctive spike protein, which interacts with the immune system of the host. Knowing the genetic differences in the two viruses could help scientists develop treatments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scouring the Market for SARS | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...findings of the Hong Kong and Shenzhen microbiologists are just a start, admits Dr. Zheng Bojian, the other leader of the team. Many more animals need to be studied. No house cats proved positive for the virus in the small-scale study, which was a relief. But, Zheng adds, his team wasn't screening for infected pets. Zheng speculates that SARS could have reached humans from civets through an intermediary host, such as a domesticated animal species with even closer contact with humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scouring the Market for SARS | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

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