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10 posted on 03/28/2003 9:47:10 PM PST by Timesink (If you use the word "embedded" in a conversation, you'd better be carrying an x-ray to show me.)

"Doctors in Hong Kong say they have also had success treating the worst sufferers with a serum of antibodies from recovered patients."

Ok i am really confused. The mortality rate of this disease is somewhere around 3-5% according to news reports. But using a serum of antibodies from recovered pations is a risky procedure because of the numerous other blood born disease many of which we haven't recognized and therefore can't test for. In addition it has been used in the past and has always proven ineffective. Why are they using it now?