[EternalHope]

This has the first specific info I have seen on the virus. The whole article is worth reading.

[Judith Anne]

Thank you very much for posting this.

[Arkinsaw]

other sections of the virus' RNA bear no resemblance to any known coronavirus

And China has been very reluctant to allow anybody access.

[Uncle George]

Clever these Chinese.

[Calpernia]

It's now in Georgia which makes five southern states it's now in:

Alabama 1
California 14
Connecticut 1
Georgia 1
Hawaii 3
Illinois 2
Kansas 1
Maine 2
Massachusetts 2
Michigan 2
Missouri 2
Mississippi 1
Minnesota 3
New Hampshire 1
New Jersey 2
New Mexico 1
North Carolina 2
New York 10
Ohio 1
Pennsylvania 3
Rhode Island 1
Texas 3
Utah 4
Virginia 3
Washington 1
Wisconsin 2

Total US yesterday = 59 today = 69

Not good

Canada now has 129 which includes 4 kids, two of them under 24 months old. At the high rise in Hong Kong that has so many (213) - they are taking the inhabitants to quarantine camps but many got away into the population yesterday before the quarantine officials came this morning. Because of this high rise, they are now saying that SARS is most probably airborne.

N95 masks are now selling for 50% higher then three days ago on eBay and stores are starting to run out in the US, especially in those states where there are suspected cases.

As a note, the US has only said that cases are suspected, they refuse to admit that any of them are SARS. Some of this is due to the definition that says the person so affected must have traveled to China, Hong Kong, Vietnam or Singapore or been in direct contact with someone who was infected. Since 80% of the SARS cases don't need to be or end up in the hospital, who knows how many actual cases are out there.

Oil of Oregano, Olive Leaf Extract and Elderberry are still the herbs of choice. see: http://www.vitaminusa.com/micmodtecnot.html

Wash you hands, often, especially after having touched things in public. Keep your hands away from your face unless you wash them first.

[aimhigh]

Makes me wonder if the Chinese have been monkeying with some virus genetics.

[BunnySlippers]

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[EternalHope]

Is it normal for a newly discovered virus to be this different from its closest cousins?

[demosthenes the elder]

heads UP!

[ShootMeIfHillaryRuns]

**unpublished data indicate the virus "looks more like an animal coronavirus than a human one, but we don't know what animal yet.”**


I read a few days ago that it might have come from a horse. Has anyone else seen that?

[this_ol_patriot]

Something you snipped

An analysis of cases in Hong Kong from February 22 to March 22 found the virus was not hitting the customarily susceptible populations -- the very young and very old -- as the mean age of patients was 52. Similarly, few patients were smokers or people with underlying health problems.

Now wouldn't that be something, smoke and stay healthy.

[Cold Heat]

...unpublished data indicate the virus "looks more like an animal coronavirus than a human one, but we don't know what animal yet.”

Quack!

[honway]

Remember Professor Wiley?

It was reported he fell off a Memphis bridge and died in the Missisippi River. Interesting. This SARS bug would have been in his area of expertise.

http://www.news.harvard.edu/specials/2001/wiley/wileybio.html

Biography of Professor Don C. Wiley
December 21, 2001
Don C. Wiley was the John L. Loeb Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Harvard University's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

Wiley's research, which made him one of the most influential biologists of his generation, focused on the structure of viruses and proteins in the human immune system. Specifically, his work sought to understand the molecular mechanisms that enable viruses to infect cells and to discover how cells respond to external challenges by presenting antigens and mobilizing defensive cells.

In studying the structure of viruses such as Influenza, AIDS , Ebola, and herpes simplex, he examined the ways in which viruses bind to cell surfaces and enter cells and the ways in which viruses has evolved to infect different organisms and to escape the immune response of their hosts. By understanding these processes, Wiley sought to find new ways to combat these viruses.

[Neuromancer]

Possible SARS Patient in Isolation in Mpuma
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April 1, 2003
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Nelspruit

A man is in isolation in the Nelspruit Medi-Clinic with symptoms of malaria or possibly the feared Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

The man, who looked to be in his 40s, was transported from Maputo, Mozambique, by ambulance to the clinic on Monday night, clinic spokeswoman Robyn Freathy said on Tuesday.

He had recently travelled to Hong Kong. She said the man could also be a malaria patient.

"After receiving a call yesterday from the Medical Director of SOS International requesting permission to receive a patient who was seen by a doctor in Maputo with possible symptoms of SARS, Nelspruit Medi-Clinic has taken all necessary precautionary measures in its isolation and hospitalisation process of the patient," Freathy said in a statement.

The man would remain in isolation until the outcome of tests already conducted was known.

"In the interim, the admission of this isolated patient has been reported by Nelspruit Medi-Clinic to the Department of Health."

[CathyRyan]

Patient treated with serum

A SARS sufferer has been given serum taken from the blood of a recovered patient, a treatment that has shown results in Hongkong. It was tried here for the first time on Monday night.

Doctors at Tan Tock Seng Hospital used it on a very sick woman who, for about a week now, has needed a ventilator to breathe. Mrs Mok, whose husband Joseph was the first to die of Sars here, has improved slightly, said the clinical director of the Communicable Disease Centre, Dr Leo Yee Sin.

She said Mrs Mok, whose daughter Esther was one of three women who brought the virus to Singapore, now relies on the ventilator for 90 per cent of her oxygen needs, instead of being totally dependent on it.

She had been given serum, containing antibodies which fight the virus, taken from one of the 52 recovered Sars patients.

But before using it on more patients here, Dr Leo said there was a need to study the Hongkong experience to understand how much serum to use and when to use it.

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,180669,00.html