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To: Domestic Church; Dog Gone
Patients who were household contacts of other infected people, and had older age, lymphopenia, and liver dysfunction were associated with severe disease.

I know I've read ibuprofin can cause liver problems. Can aspirin?

12 posted on 04/10/2003 5:57:40 PM PDT by aristeides
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To: aristeides; Dog Gone
If you are taking NSAIDS(aspirin, advil type meds, not tylenol) for their anti inflammatory effects (or for fever with an inflamation) you take a dosage that will reduce tissue swelling...and if the inflammation is in the upper/lower respiratory tract you will have the viral exudate being coughed and sneezed out at a greater rate. So when you take these you increase the virulence of the sneeze/cough. Some people take therapeutic levels of NSAIDS continually.

But there was news of folks catching this SARS from a wake up in Canada. If so, then it sounds like the body is shedding this virus through the skin.
13 posted on 04/10/2003 6:35:57 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...)
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To: aristeides
I think it could be possible that since the coronavirus is linked to the common cold, there are probably people who's immune system has already built up a defense against this pathogen - or one similar too it.

Secondly, they've found evidence of two pathogens working in conjunction (however, not necessarily Chlamydia):
SARS a combination of bacteria and virus
China: SARS May Be Linked to Chlamydia-Like Agent

If this were the case, one would have to have a defense against both pathogens. IMO, this is why the virus is more difficult for the body to battle. As far as the case of the super-spreaders, the pathogen that is working in conjunction with the coronavirus may make the combination deadly. However, if a carrier passes the coronavirus to someone without a secondary infection (or one the body can handle), the effects are not fatal.

Maybe in the case of the super-spreader, both viruses were passed, and in the case of the apartment building, an underlying virus was already at work in the building.

If any of this is true, it would mean that two viruses would be active at the same time. Finding a cure for any combination of two viruses would be extremely difficult.

14 posted on 04/10/2003 6:51:23 PM PDT by InShanghai (I was born on the crest of a wave, and rocked in the cradle of the deep.)
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