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...surveys the HSPH has previously conducted addressed the anthrax attacks related to Sept. 11, vaccinations against smallpox, and the recent concerns about the West Nile virus...
...SARS. That last effort should be made a lot easier with the Chinese government's decision last week to finally let a who team into Guangdong. Medical detectives may have already found the very first recorded victim - patient zero - a man in the city of Foshan who passed the virus on to four other people before he recovered...
Mild cases would also act like natural vaccines, conferring immunity on the patients. When 70% or so of a population has immunity - what epidemiologists call herd immunity - a virus is considered burned out: it can't spread further because there is almost no one left to infect. In the meantime, hospitals are trying to prevent the disease from taking root by isolating patients and using gowns, masks, goggles and gloves religiously - techniques that so far have proved extremely effective at preventing transmission...
Fanning out across the globe at jet-speed, the deadly virus that causes SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is suspected to have made it to Boston weeks ago. The key word here is “suspected.” Although there were nine “suspected” cases of SARS in Massachusetts as of Friday, none of those possible cases has ended in death. Nevertheless, the virus long ago claimed its first victim in Boston with the death of a sense of proportion about the risks of the disease for most people...
...take any threatened disease lightly. If SARS were to cause many deaths in the U.S., public health authorities would look foolish if they failed to mount a vigorous response in the initial stages of the outbreak. This uncertainly gives officials an incentive to play up the threat of the virus...