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Is the Sub-continent immune to SARS menace?
HindustanTimes.com ^
| ,April 23, 2003
| Shakti Sharma
Posted on 04/23/2003 5:15:44 AM PDT by CathyRyan
Are people from India and Indian sub-continent immune to the fast spreading SARS virus? This question is baffling the medical community, with doctors discussing the possibility of the virus being race-specific.
Some doctors are of the view that people of the sub-continent may have a higher level of immunity to the virus. They reason that with a large number of Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lanka frequenting SARS-affected regions like Singapore, Hong Kong and other territories, hardly anyone has contracted the virus.
WHO (Delhi HQ) Information Officer, Harsharn Pandey avers: "It has been almost five months since the first case of SARS was reported from China, and the virus has spread to 23 countries, but not a single case of SARS has been reported from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh".
AIIMS virologist, Dr Shobha Broor says," Viruses are never race sensitive but it could be possible that people from this part of the sub-continent could have developed antibodies to counter the SARS virus."
Although WHO has no race-wise record of SARS victims - both dead and those affected -- available information culled from various sources points out that no person from this part of the world has died of SARS so far.
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the US health department, Dr Julie L Gerberding, during a recent video conference, admitted about the typical race-specific behaviour of the virus and said that in China, Hong Kong and Singapore the ongoing transmission of this virus at a very accelerated pace in "certain communities".
Doctors are also pointing out at the fact that the local transmission of the virus has so far been reported from China, Hong Kong, Canada, Singapore, Vietnam, Taiwan, UK and the USA, while in the sub-continent, people who had tested positive for the virus had brought in the disease from infected nations and the recovery rate is cent percent.
Quoting incidents of SARS, doctors say, the first ever case of SARS in India was reported from Goa where a marine engineer tested positive. The patient, however, responded well to treatment and recovered in almost no time.
In the latest SARS case reported from Pune, three members of a family -- Stanley D'silva, his mother Vimla and sister Julie -- who came to India three weeks ago, tested positive. While Stanley has completely recovered, his mother and sister are responding well to treatment.
Indian Medical Association (Delhi Chapter) president, KK Aggarwal says the so called SARS positive cases reported cases in India may ultimately test negative, as the confirmatory test for the virus on the convalescent sample has to be done after 21 days.
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KEYWORDS: sars
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To: NorseWood
Those people at the wedding in India are apparently all recovering nicely, in their quarantine.
To: Lady Heron
China? They already have a one child policy to limit their population. That's not to say that I believe SARS was created in a lab.
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posted on
04/23/2003 12:17:57 PM PDT
by
tiki
To: Dog Gone; All
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posted on
04/23/2003 12:23:19 PM PDT
by
Betty Jo
To: CathyRyan
Lotta good land in China, I think I'll buy an empty lot by the coast in a few years. ;-)
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posted on
04/23/2003 12:25:09 PM PDT
by
Porterville
(Screw the grammar, full posting ahead.)
To: aristeides
So much for FOX and their Breaking News.
A female student at Seton Hall had a female relative who has SARS visit in her dorm room.
I see its hours old though, not breaking.
The "google news sort by date" is very handy to see what is really new news.
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posted on
04/23/2003 12:32:44 PM PDT
by
Betty Jo
To: Betty Jo
Good advice. We need to contain this thing in Toronto until it dies out, if that's possible.
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posted on
04/23/2003 12:36:50 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Betty Jo
To: Dog Gone
Just yesterday CDC say it was OK to go to Toronto,just stay away from hospitals.
Will CDC change its travel warning to match WHO?
Will this become a sort of battle of the minds/turf war?
I'm getting whiplash trying to keep up.
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posted on
04/23/2003 12:40:50 PM PDT
by
Betty Jo
To: mabelkitty
"Psst. It's okay to say "white people"."
If that's the case, then he was using the term anglo-saxon incorrectly. he should have said "white" or "caucasian". I thought he was referring to all caucasians as anglo-saxons, which would be incorrect. it's a very specific term just like "celtic" is a very specific term, indicating racial or biological/genetic characteristics.
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posted on
04/23/2003 12:41:06 PM PDT
by
sonofron
To: aristeides
Thanks. I was just going to post that link.
So how many parents will pull their kids out of Seton Hall?
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posted on
04/23/2003 12:42:21 PM PDT
by
Betty Jo
To: aristeides
Well it is official I am burnt out on the sars topic and I am taking a few days off. Will check in from time to time. It looks like their are plenty of people to keep up with the latest. Take care.
To: Nebullis
FYI.
To: Dog Gone; aristeides; riri
FOX now saying that Canadian government is freaking out re the WHO travel advisory.Canada is sending a letter of protest to WHO.
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posted on
04/23/2003 12:54:14 PM PDT
by
Betty Jo
To: CathyRyan
A little idle speculation: if this is a bioweapon created by the Chinese, the "test subjects" were likely Chinese prisoners. They may have unintentionally optimized the pathogen to kill their prisoner population, but never checked to see if it was equally effective against other ethnic/racial groups.
An article cited on Steve Quayle's website claims this is a Chinese bioweapon and that it was purposely released in November 2002 by Jiang Zemin and the PRC.
It may be tin-foil hat time, but there have been research attempts to make racially specific diseases.
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posted on
04/23/2003 12:55:50 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: aristeides
Getting back to the thread title.."Is sub continent immune"
I think only Bin Laden and or/Saddam is immune.
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04/23/2003 12:56:06 PM PDT
by
Betty Jo
To: Betty Jo
To: Myrddin
Steve Quayle was on coast to coast am last night.Art Bells old show.
Stevie also talked about fallen angels mating with earthies,and six digited giants on earth.
So, I think he is a nuts!
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04/23/2003 12:59:38 PM PDT
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Betty Jo
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To: Betty Jo
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