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Florida case shows SARS may be workplace threat
CNN.com ^ | April 9, 2003 Posted: 7:37 PM EDT

Posted on 04/09/2003 10:29:27 PM PDT by 11th_VA

Edited on 04/29/2004 2:02:23 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (CNN) -- A Floridian who contracted SARS abroad has infected a coworker, the state department of health said Wednesday, marking the first time the disease may have been spread to someone other than a household member or health care worker.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: americansars; sars
So what if a terrorist infected himself/herself and came to a large city in the US and ...
1 posted on 04/09/2003 10:29:27 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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2 posted on 04/09/2003 10:31:42 PM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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Students at Lula J. Edge Elementary School in Niceville, Florida, leave school Tuesday, after the school district confirmed that a kindergarten student there had contracted the SARS virus.

(Standby for a SURGE in home schooled kids)

3 posted on 04/09/2003 10:32:53 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Let's Roll)
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A Floridian who contracted SARS abroad has infected a coworker, the state department of health said Wednesday, marking the first time the disease may have been spread to someone other than a household member or health care worker.

The first case in this country perhaps, but I believe there have already been several cases of this in Asia.

4 posted on 04/10/2003 5:32:20 AM PDT by aristeides
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HKG95105.htm.
5 posted on 04/10/2003 5:33:42 AM PDT by aristeides
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A Floridian who contracted SARS abroad has infected a coworker, the state department of health said Wednesday, marking the first time the disease may have been spread to someone other than a household member or health care worker.

So much for the cockroach theory codswallop....

6 posted on 04/10/2003 5:35:44 AM PDT by Prince Charles
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That should have been titled "Fears grow SARS thrives in Hong Kong housing hotbed".

Asia Clamps Down as Deadly SARS Spreads .

7 posted on 04/10/2003 5:36:52 AM PDT by aristeides
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"Florida case shows SARS may be workplace threat"

I guess that leaves most liberals out.

8 posted on 04/10/2003 5:37:10 AM PDT by Snowy (My golden retriever can lick your honor student)
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"A spokeswoman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta told CNN the organization was not aware of any spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in the United States among coworkers."

Or perhaps this is yet another attempt by the liberal left media to create fear among the paranoid leftists in America? They did it with global warming, an automatic $60,000 tax hike (that would have benefited the U.N. and the liberal left communists) on every house hold in America IF President Bush had not unsigned us from the disastourous Kyota treaty; they tried to steal the election from President Bush; they did it with overcoverage of the shark attacks a few years back which turned out to be a blatant lie, they yelled doom and gloom about every one of President Bush's successful undertakings since he came to office and they will continue their propaganda campaign of unwise American's as long as American's vote democrat. I don't even read or listen to liberal journalists and reporters anymore; you can tell they are lying when their lips are moving.
9 posted on 04/10/2003 5:52:36 AM PDT by wgeorge2001 ("The truth will set you free.")
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Students at Lula J. Edge Elementary School in Niceville, Florida, leave school Tuesday, after the school district confirmed that a kindergarten student there had contracted the SARS virus.

Or as I like to call them, petri dishes. I'm glad I home school.
10 posted on 04/10/2003 6:09:35 AM PDT by pops88
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So much for the cockroach theory codswallop....

Actually, no. No one has claimed that cockroaches are the only way the disease spreads.

At least one of the accounts of the cockroach theory has gone into more detail: the cockroaches, it is hypothesized, spread contaminated feces (in Amoy Gardens in Hong Kong, from one apartment to adjoining apartments). The suspect virus has been found in victims' feces. Coworkers could be exposed to contaminated feces in workplace bathrooms.

11 posted on 04/10/2003 7:20:08 AM PDT by aristeides
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