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...dozen nations had died of SARS by the weekend, leading the World Health Organization (WHO) to issue an unprecedented warning against travel to the hardest-hit regions of Guangdong province and neighboring Hong Kong and airlines to cut flights to affected zones. Despite hope early last week that the virus might be burning out on its own, suspected new cases popped up in countries as disparate as Fiji, Israel and Brazil. Mainland China and Hong Kong each announced more deaths from the disease last week, bringing their death tolls to 49 and 20 respectively. In Canada, the most seriously affected...
...Virus Spreads...
...costly and time-consuming treatment of SARS victims. Panic is erupting in usually placid Canada, where Chinese restaurateurs are now having to convince nervous patrons that eating moo shu pork doesn't cause the disease and local radio shows are fielding calls asking whether Caucasians are immune to the virus. (Of course...
...China's reluctance to hand over all relevant data to international health experts is particularly worrisome given that it only takes one infected individual to spark an explosive outbreak. For some reason, certain people?dubbed superspreaders?seem to pass a virus on with brutal efficiency, as happens with some tuberculosis sufferers. One SARS superspreader, who was a patient at Hong Kong's Prince of Wales Hospital, ended up directly infecting more than 90 people in the territory; in Vietnam, another individual was so contagious that he had passed the virus on to at least 30 health-care workers. Medical experts...
...second major cluster of SARS cases in Hong Kong after the Metropole Hotel?the man visited his brother, who lived on the 12th floor of Block E in Amoy Gardens. During his four visits to the housing complex, the man, who also suffered from diarrhea, might have spread the virus through his bodily waste. (Scientists believe the virus may be present in human feces.) Once flushed down the toilet, the waste may have contaminated the apartment block's sewage system through faulty plumbing. Because the virus seems to survive longer in organic matter than in the open air, investigators theorize...