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Most cases seem to be passed on through direct, close contact. When people sneeze or cough, they send virus-laden droplets of fluid into the air, which others nearby inhale. SARS may also be spread through water or sewage or contaminated objects like doorknobs...
Rosenthal said that even if travelers do not contract SARS while abroad, they might be detained and prevented from returning due to fears about spreading the virus...
...don’t yet have any sort of diagnostic test that can tell us when someone has the virus,” said McIntosh, a virus expert. “But the test shouldn’t be that long in coming...
...antibodies from recovered SARS patients that is injected into current victims. The cocktail seems to be working, with most of the deaths thus far confined to the elderly or those with pre-existing medical conditions. Doctors also suspect that as the disease is passed on second- and thirdhand, the virus might lose its potency. Says Dr. Joseph Sung, chief of service at the Prince of Wales Hospital: "I'm quite convinced that some people might have contracted the infection, but not the disease. Some may develop mild symptoms, like a little bit of cough and no fever; some may just...
...Many viral outbreaks tend to burn out, as a population naturally develops immunity to the particular pathogens. But a virus can also be devastating, as was in the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918-19 (see 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...