SARS infects 'protected' medical staff Gloves, gowns, masks didn't stop outbreak at Sunnybrook

CanWest News Service - The Ottawa Citizen - canada.com ^ | April 20, 2003 | David Rider

[CathyRyan]

Bold added by me.

[mewzilla]

Uh oh.

[CathyRyan]

To find articles keyed on the word sars

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/keyword/sars

[mewzilla]

You don't suppose they could have come in contact with the virus when they were removing their protective gear?

[CathyRyan]

Jupiter suits maybe the new fashion craze

[CathyRyan]

It could be but I think in Singapore they when to Jupiter(sp) suits because the other way just was not cutting it.

[VeganFreeper]

Bump.

Graphs can be found here: http://www.sars-spread.com/

[Nick Danger]

[DB]

Virus' are very small, if it is carried in the air without rapidly dying then that't big trouble. No typical medical mask is going to protect you from something so small.

[CathyRyan]

Is the company public and can I buy stock?

[aristeides]

Now that there is a test for the coronavirus, I wonder if the superspreaders will be recognizable through the test. It may not be necessary to adopt the same security measures for other people with SARS

[MichaelDammit]

This is significant....and those graphs arent bending over at all like the media had previously reported....like I said before "This is going to get out of hand".

Thanks for your continued bird dogging on this subject.

[CathyRyan]

I do not know much about the test but ProMED had a section on it last night. You might find an answer there...

http://www.promedmail.org/pls/askus/f?p=2400:1001:64193224808861113::NO::F2400_P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1000,21322

[CathyRyan]

I am no expert all I do is cut and paste :)

[friendly]

Canada's health care system is a (truly) sick joke, a media driven fraud. It lacks the capacity to cope with SARS, or anything else for that matter.

SARS is a potential blessing to the Canadians, if it causes them to look behind the carefully crafted curtain, into their sham of a system.

The crooked Liberal Party politicians now have a convenient excuse for the foreseeable future: "Nothing works in Medicare and OHIP because of SARS. That is why the waiting lists are so long." (Note: Medicare = Canadian national health care, OHIP = Ontario health insurance plan)

Sooooo... How come the US has (so far) contained SARS and the American health care system still operates, more or less, despite more exposure to SARS, with vastly more people coming from infected regions of South China?

[CathyRyan]

How come the US has (so far) contained SARS and the American health care system still operates, more or less, despite more exposure to SARS, with vastly more people coming from infected regions of South China?

I suspect luck has alot to do with it. So Canada does have issues with health care but I do believe there but for the grace of g*d go us. imho

[CathyRyan]

delete the word So.

[snopercod]

Are Cold-EZE and Zicam of any value in reducing SARS to plain old ARS?

[Publius6961]

Canada has a "different" idea of multiculturalism and world relations.
They firmly believed it was "better" "harmless" and carried no cost.

Hard way to find out you're wrong.
Good luck, Canucks.

[Dog Gone]

"What the CDC mentioned to us last night was that, in their studies, they found that you could still culture viable virus from surfaces after as much as 24 hours, which is longer than we normally expect viruses to be able to survive in the environment," he said.

That's the most troubling statement in the article to me.