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INFORMATION LINKS – SARS:

United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

World Health Organization (WHO)

SARS Info Center

International Society for Infectious Diseases (ProMed)

per loin’s Charts and Graphs

FREE REPUBLIC THREADS:

November 10, 2001

1. Colorado Governor Orders Post Office Shut Down After Employee Hospitalized for Pneumonia

November 21, 2001

2. Odd Pneumonia in Sverdlovsk

February 12, 2003

3. Fear spreads in China over mystery lung virus

March 10 – 16

4. Precognition (Mother Abigail)

5. First Known Case of Atypical Pneumonia in Europe Quarantined in Frankfurt (with 155 passengers)

6. UN Warns of Worldwide Threat from Killer Pneumonia

7. UN warns of worldwide threat from killer pneumonia

8. CDC Issues Health Alert About Atypical Pneumonia - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (New SARS site)

9. A third case of atypical pneumonia reported in Taiwan

March 17 – 23

10. Honk Kong Health Secretary calls for calm as SARS cases double, (83 up from 42 on Sunday)

11. Experts Urge Against Panic Over Illness (SARS, contains actual info)

12. LATEST SARS UPDATE - DETAILED MEDICAL INFORMATION

13. BREAKING BIG: POSSIBLE PATHOGEN DETECTED IN SARS CASE

14. Killer Virus (SARS) Identified

15. Seven victims of mystery pneumonia stayed on same floor of Hong Kong hotel

16. SARS UPDATE: New Info on SARS for Health Care Providers on Free Republic

17. Guangdong doctor linked to SARS outbreak

18. President of the American Society of Microbiology on SARS - "Everything says it is airborne."

19. SARS REACHES HONG KONG SCHOOLS - 32 NEW CASES (IS THE BUG OUT OF THE BOX?)

20. CDC increases SARS cases to 22 in U.S.

21. CHINA CONFIRMS CASES AND DEATHS (SARS) - HONG KONG SITUATION DETERIORATING - 22 CASES IN US

22. Causative agent of SARS virus isolated from lung tissue - test is reliably identifying cases

23. VIETNAM NEW SARS HOT ZONE, U.S. Warns Citizens in Vietnam To leave

24. SARS cases on the rise in Canada, may be spreading even further, 12 people showing symptoms

March 24 – 30

25. Singapore - 740 people quarantined, 14 new cases on Monday, Hospitals close, SARS spreads

26. 37 In United States May Have SARS

27. SARS epidemic spreads in Taiwan, three other CDC officials have become ill.

28. Official: Mystery Pneumonia in Southern China Killed 31 by End of February

29. Killer-flu a 'white terror': Expert, "It is the worst medical disaster I have ever seen."

30. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) multi-country outbreak - Update 10

31. German Scientist Sees No Global SARS Epidemic

32. CASES OF SARS HIT UC SAN FRANCISCO MEDICAL CENTER AND KAISER

33. SARS STRIKES 2 MORE IN CITY

34. SARS update: Mar 28

35. Airports stepping up screening for SARS

36. First SARS cases reported in New York

37. Quarantine is not slowing SARS

38. Second hospital ordered closed [ SARS -- Toronto ]

39. Virus may have crossed species barrier [ SARS ]

40. Screening for SARS at Pearson blasted -- Toronto Airport

41. SARS - Serious and Airborne No Matter What the Public is Told.

42. Virus hits hospital chief [ SARS ]

43. Pneumonia crisis grips Hong Kong

44. China Begins to Acknowledge Scope of SARS Infection

45. Lesson in circumspection [ SARS ]

46. SARS may spread by air

47. Airport checks on Sars tightened

48. Sars claims 4th Canadian victim

49. SARS UPDATE: Pneumonia bug poses global threat

50. Discoverer Of SARS Dies From It

51. SARS survival rate higher than pneumonia

March 31 – April 6

52. Doctors use antibodies to treat SARS victims

53. Excerpt: U.S. Disease Center Puzzles over SARS Transmission

54. All You Need To Know About SARS

55. An enduring mystery (SARS -- intelligent discussion)

56. Canadian SARS Virus Outbreak Rises to 129 Cases

57. More SARS cases reported in Hong Kong

58. 30 new cases of SARS in Ontario - Five young children among latest stricken

59. Hong Kong opening quarantine camps for SARS patients

60. Plane quarantined at San Jose airport

61. China Stonewalls WHO on SARS Virus -- Identity of Guangdong Medical Professor Revealed

62. Online hoax on Sars prompts HK panic buying

63. How the illness spread (SARS)

64. Chinese Province Reports 9 SARS Deaths (Guangdong)

65. SARS Mystery Deepens (Virus details)

66. False SARS alarm aboard U.S.-bound jet

67. WHO: All Travelers Should Avoid Hong Kong and Guangdong (SARS)

68. Scientists publish study: Researchers say virus is probably not airborne

69. Shanghai reports first SARS case

70. An Uncommon Cold (SARS)

71. Travellers Warned To Stay Away From Hong Kong (SARS)

72. SARS dashes hope for large Hong Kong Seder

73. 400 new SARS cases in China

74. Identity of killer pneumonia bug confirmed

75. SARS outbreak already causes business struggles

76. Singapore SARS death toll at 5

77. SARS Virus Sparks Fears in Tech Industry

78. Novel Coronavirus Detected in Chicken Intestinal Contents (SARS Relative in Sao Paulo)

79. Flight Attendants Demand Protection From SARS [Masks and Gloves]

80. 98 in Hong Kong recovering from SARS

81. WHO OFFICIAL SAYS SARS EPIDEMIC IN SINGAPORE 'ALMOST CERTAINLY OVER', NEXT 1-2 WEEKS CRUCIAL

82. Embassy staff flee SARS outbreak

83. SARS a combination of bacteria and virus

84. MSNBC- President Bush Signs Executive Order Allowing Quarantine For SARS Patients.

85. China apologizes for SARS response

86. CHINA: SARS, the Internet and Humiliated Communists

87. Experts Predict Spread of Mystery Illness (SARS)

88. Frequently Asked Questions About Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

89. Sars: School closures extended

90. Another Torontonian dies of SARS

91. MAINLAND CHINA: Chlamydia arrowed as culprit [SARS]

92. Hong Kong Man With SARS Surrenders

93. SARS toll mounts to 73 in China

94. SARS case in Kuwait!

95. Where does the virus come from? [SARS]

April 7 - 13

96. Toll 22 as two more die [SARS]

97. High-level Singaporean task force for Sars

98. Fear... anxiety... optimism [Exposure to SARS]

99. Latest SARS evidence

100. New Reports Of SARS Plague Hong Kong

101. Sars 'fears' at French airport

102. Top Hong Kong Medical Official Has SARS

103. Beijing loses big on SARS gamble

104. China Says Finn Died of SARS

105. Beijing loses big on SARS gamble

106. NEJM -- A Major Outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Hong Kong [study conducted]

107. Patient's wake spreads SARS

108. CHLAMYDIA FOUND IN SARS (STD pathogen in mystery global epidemic that killed 82, infected 2,500)

109. Update 23 - Status of the main SARS outbreaks in different countries

110. CDC: SARS 'the beginning of a problem'

111. New theory of SARS transmission is proposed by doctor (It's an STD says Taiwan doctor)

112. Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment for SARS

113. No SARS testing at U.S. airports

114. Beijing's SARS Attack

115. No Plans for SARS Quarantine in US, Experts Tell Senate Panel

116. Is Fear Spreading Faster Than SARS?

117. New SARS Outbreak Sparks 'Typhoid Mary' Fears

118. Beijing's SARS Attack

119. SARS: How Singapore outmanaged the others

120. Available tests to detect SARS not fully reliable, says WHO

121. SARS Is Here to Stay, Hong Kong and Singapore Tell Citizens

122. SARS may have other infection routes: officials

123. SARS effects Australian seafood industry -

124. Hong Kong's Healthcare System Overwhelmed by SARS

125. ROACHES EYED IN SARS

126. Singapore Woman Linked to 100 SARS Cases

127. Commentary: While China Stonewalled (SARS)

128. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - Update 24 - (Started in Room 911)

129. U.S. Tests 2,000 Drugs for SARS Treatment

130. SARS Here to Stay, Health Experts Say

131. Florida case shows SARS may be workplace threat

132. SARS Hits Columbus Ohio

133. Deadly SARS Likely in Asia for Keeps-U.S. Expert

134. SARS forces Ontarians to U.S. for medical help

135. ACADEMICIAN KOLESNIKOV: THE VIRUS OF ATYPICAL PNEUMONIA HAS BEEN CREATED ARTIFICIALLY (SARS ALERT)

136. Scientists identify virus behind deadly SARS

137. Deloping SARS Pandemic?

138. SARS Fear Spreads in Hong Kong

139. Sars victim who infected 133 will remain in quarantine exile (Super-spreader)

140. Breaking: Man diagnosed with SARS took 6 international flights....

141. Globetrotting Traveler Infected With SARS

142. CDC chief says she is concerned about possible workplace spread of SARS virus

143. SARS - US cases rise to 166 from 148

144. S&P considers impact of SARS

145. HK reports 61 new cases of virus, 2 more dead

146. Academician Kolesnikov: The Virus of Atypical Pneumonia Has Been Created Artifically (SARS)

147. Sars 'is mutant cold virus'

148. Exclusive SARS Report: Six Degrees of SARS: Of Politics, Greed, and Plagues

149. Medical Experts Speak Out -- SARS Virus Could Be Man-Made and Possibly a Bio-Weapon

150. Scientists confident of SARS link {SARS spread by cockroaches!}

151. SARS virus was created in weapons lab: Russian scientist

152. Health officials see 6 more likely SARS cases

153. Airline cancels 716 flights [SARS]

154. Children may escape worst of SARS virus

155. SARS may be here to stay

156. Decisive action, not slogans [SARS]

157. Every breath you take [SARS]

158. HK reports 49 new SARS cases, 3 more deaths

159. SARS Spreads to China's Remote Inner Mongolia

160. Businessman Becomes First To Contract SARS In Britain

161. SARS: Major report from the World Health Organization

162. New Sars deaths in China, Hongkong, Vietnam and Canada

163. B.C. lab cracks suspected SARS code

164. Jump in SARS Deaths; Airline Fears for Future (HK reports sharp jump in SARS deaths yesterday)

165. SARS ( atypical pneumonia )- a partial archive

166. British Columbia lab first to unlock suspected SARS virus

167. SARS virus threatens to become 21st century's first major disease

168. WHO adds Beijing to SARS-hit list

169. Up close with the Czar of Sars

170. SARS claims eight more in Asia

171. SARS batters Asian economies

172. SARS Global Death Toll Hits 133

173. U.S. strain of SARS much milder, data show

April 14 - 20

174. Chinese Premier: SARS Situation'Grave'

175. Young people predominate in latest Sars deaths

176. Canadian breakthrough leads wave of SARS hopes

177. German Firm Distributes First SARS Test Worldwide

178. SARS could be biggest disease threat since AIDS, says WHO expert

179. The SARS Hoopla

180. Anti-Sars action 'crippling airlines'

181. Stopping SARS

182. 29 New Cases SARS - Religious Community

183. SARS Claims Young Victims In Hong Kong

184. SARS spreading rapidly in China

185. SARS takes economic toll on Asia

186. Hong Kong SARS Turns Deadlier.

187. One-Day Death Rate From New Virus Hits 9 in Hong Kong

188. Experiments on Monkeys Zero In on SARS Cause

189. CHINA 'HIDES' SARS VICTIMS

190. Scientists Confirm Cause Of SARS: Researchers Inject Monkeys With Suspected Virus

191. Proof SARS came from animals

192. SARS Chills Canada's Easter as Virus Spreads

193. Vietnam Nurse Survives Battle With SARS

194. The new bioterrorists

195. Coast Guard Searching For SARS

196. SARS LIKELY SPREAD THROUGH HONG KONG APARTMENT'S SEWAGE PIPES

197. SARS: With Hong Kong Chart

198. Doctors save baby of pregnant SARS victim

199. SARS Mutating, Making Cure Unlikely

200. Island's SARS quarantine 'not a threat'

201. Doctors log on to fight SARS outbreak

202. WHO suspects hundreds more Beijing SARS deaths

203. SARS spread via plumbing: Outbreak traced at Hong Kong apartment complex

204. Fearing SARS, Ontario Urges Wider Quarantines

205. Possible confirmed US SARS case

206. In China's Capital, 'We're Panicking'

207. U.S. Reclassifies SARS Cases, Number Drops

208. China hid SARS patients - report

209. What does Dr Frist have to say about it?

210. Deadly SARS Spreads World-Wide: Death Rate Increases and Doctors Worry About Mutating Virus

211. Toronto officials trying to trace unlinked SARS case

212. SARS: Officials wary of outbreak in Canada

213. SARS: Hong Kong/China 19 April

214. How world let virus spread A tale of mistakes, missed opportunities, near misses

215. SARS: With Hong Kong & WHO charts 4/19

216. HK SARS deaths reach new high

217. A passenger who flew in with cough tests positive for SARS

218. SARS pandemic a worry, but now it's wait and see

219. Canada's SARS fear prompts quarantine [SARS now in Montreal?]

220. China reports 48 new SARS cases

221. Oh Canada, Doubting Their Leaders Re: SARS

222. Sars Death Toll Hits New High In Hong Kong

223. Lethal Legacy: Bioweapons for Sale

224. China Sharply Raises Its SARS Infections, Deaths

225. Chinese SARS patients hidden

226. SARS: The Hong Kong Chart - 4/20/03

227. City Of Fear, Hope; Hong Kong keeps a brave face as SARS crisis grows

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

229. China sacks minister over Sars (And May Day festivities cancelled)

230. SARS virus proves dangerously durable

231. China sacks health minister, 21 new SARS deaths worldwide (China's got their own "Baghdad Bob")

232. Updated Interim U.S. Case Definition of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

233. China's secrecy over Sars

234. China, the Evil Empire (of SARS)

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Certainly an interesting link. But what happened next?

I don't know what happened next. Atafak, the original poster, hasn't posted in a year. I googled searched but didn't find anything else about it. I'm hoping someone here remembers the event and can tell us more.

[Betty Jo]

Where in Toronto was the nurse before she got on the plne?

[Betty Jo]

In the Colorado PO case,can any antibodies to SARS be found at this late date ?

[Domestic Church]

That info on the nurse wasn't given...it was just a quick news tidbit around suppertime and I can't recall if it was FOX or MSNBC.

[Betty Jo]

Thanks.If she was a nurse with SARS victims in Toronto,she is just another infection from people visiting the East.

But, if she was not a working SARS nurse,where did she get it from?

Also the incubation timespread.

In my opinion WHO is right on with their dont go to Toronto advice!

[aristeides]

Woman outside Albany who is thought to have SARS only had a five-hour layover in Toronto while traveling. It was apparently enough to give her the disease.

[CathyRyan]

Are you looking for info. on the nurse in the Philippines' ?

[Betty Jo]

So, there...

Quarantine Canada.

Going backwards..."Med Emerg International Inc" has contracts to provide medical staff and care to ...the Canadian Armed Forces...among others..guess who owns part of it....Mahfouz through Camille Chebeir...the same guys from Hybridon...which licenses "antisense" to ISIS..which is working on SARS

Part of my Bin Laden medical matrix.

[Betty Jo]

Yes Mam!

[Judith Anne]

I'm bumping this really outstanding thread, BJ. ;-D

[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

" A halfhearted effort at controlling the epidemic would guarantee failure. But if the U.S. is prepared to lead a world-wide coalition of nations in joining forces with the World Health Organization with the oal of doing everything possible to eradicate SARS, this extraordinary goal might just be achievable. "

Here we are on the modest "herald wave" of this pandemic and even now the Canadian authorities are hrowing hissy fits about lost $$$ and being labeled...if this is any indicator we are going up river without a paddle. Someone had better smack some sense into Chretien fast.

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Yes, perhaps this will become the second disease to
be granted 'civil rights' protections - - like AIDS.
Heaven forbid that a double digit mortality rate and
rapidly spreading incidence of the disease might tempt
public health officials into the dreaded sin of
"profiling"! The Chinese bureaucracy is not the only
repository of clueless bureaucrats.

[CathyRyan]

Sorry it took so long to get back to you. My computer messed up and it was throw it out the window or go to bed and try to fix it in the morning. I can find more if you like. :)

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2003/4/22/latest/11546Filipinom&sec=latest



http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/southeastasia/view/37981/1/.html

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/abs_news_flash_article.asp?FlashOID=8170

[Betty Jo]

Well, my puter just froze, and I had to turn it off.

I had a reply to your kind answers re the Nurse.

So , here goes again.

Do you know of a kind of "family tree" that shows this one victim?

When I do it ,it is like this

?
Doctor
Mom of Roomie
Nurse
Dad of Nurse

But this doesnt show the sideways of it

? ----
Doctor ----
Mom of Roomie ----
Nurse ----
Dad of Nurse ----

And we are only assuming that this is how the nurse got it.

So what is the math of all this?

Dozens from one person? Hundreds ? Thousands?

Quarantine the whole world right now!

[riri]

Quarantine the whole world right now!

Someone said that about five weeks ago. It might have worked five weeks ago.

[tuna_battle_slight_return]

Here's another, if you wish to add:

The Business Implications of SARS

[LauraJean]

Here is another link
http://www.idph.state.il.us/health/sars_probable.htm
by the way the information is already dated according to a Peoria newspaper there are four cases downstate.

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April 21, 2003

235. Best treatment of SARS available- Photo-oxidation

236. SARS measures too late [in China]

237. Economies Sickened by a Virus, and Fear

238. China economy to slow as SARS hits travel, shops

239. WHO Says Beijing SARS Count Could Rise by 200

240. Docs Wrangle Over SARS Death Rate

241. Coronavirus May Not be Only Cause of SARS

242. Active SARS Cases Down 30% From Peak (Toronto, Ontario)

243. Hong Kong Says SARS Quarantine Working

244. No end in sight in Hong Kong (coping with SARS)

245. SARS DEATH TOLL RISES

246. DO AIRLINES SPREAD SARS?

247. 80 at Nevada volleyball tournament report mystery illness

248. Mutation discovery raises fears over Sars vaccine

249. SARS Cases, Criticism on the Rise in China

250. Fears grow over Sars as China struggles to cope

251. The mutating world of a killer virus

252. 'Belligerent' Canadian Puts Hundreds at SARS Risk

253. Hospital refuses to treat Sars victims too poor to pay bill

254. China admits Sars may spread out of control

255. New Health Worry for China as SARS Hits the Hinterland

256. Tea Helps Fight Off Infections ! (SARS Beware ...)

257. WHO Expert: 'I Trust Our Chinese Counterparts'

258. China to Mass Produce Fast SARS Test Kit

259. SARS: Get it right next time

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April 22, 2003

260. Food for thought: SARS link to Cantonese cuisine

261. SARS may stay around forever

262. ‘BELLIGERENT' CANUCK SOWS SEEDS OF SARS

263. 'Super-spreader' theory weighed

264. Sars death toll rises to 235

265. Microbiologist: SARS now attacking intestines

266. China, Hong Kong report more SARS deaths

267. Latest Canadian Numbers on SARS

268. 12-08 Officials seek cause of three local deaths - Was SARS already here?

269. Taiwan left isolated in fight against SARS

270. Burgeoning SARS virus decoded in China

271. SARS disaster feared in rural China

272. SARS: Beijing's lesson may be too late

273. Where SARS Stands on the Disaster Scale

274. SARS: India on red alert

275. SARS CRISIS: DON'T RULE OUT LINKAGES TO CHINA'S BIOWARFARE

276. Manhunt for Beijing taxi drivers with SARS-infected passenger

277. Virus(SARS) can live 24 hours outside host, study finds

278. SARS Toll Soars To 235 As 17 More Die In Asia

279. Volleyball Players Come Down With Mysterious Illness

280. Time for tough action on Sars

281. CANADA: Hospital staff get full face shields, double gloves (SARS)

282. Dutch Bird Flu Claims First Human Victim (Not SARS)

283. Scientists find there is no quick cure for Sars

284. Sars: A New Threat to Asian Prosperity

285. Sars virus 'mutating rapidly'

286. SCHOOLS CLOSED IN BEIJING

287. Beijing still reluctant to divulge Sars toll

288. A silver lining to Sars crisis for Beijing?

289. Beijing schools to close for two weeks; 1.7 million students affected(NOT infected - SARS)

290. Outbreak of SARS at Amoy Gardens, Hong Kong -- Main Findings of the Investigation

291. SARS Cases in Hong Kong Have Begun to Level Off

292. Sea of White Masks as People Flee SARS-Hit Beijing

[stlnative]

Local Company Patents Possible Treatment for SARS - 4/26/03

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April 23, 2003

293. Canada: Health Officials Seek Help From U.S. to Control Virus

294. SARS doctor is 'in denial'

295. Is the Sub-continent immune to SARS menace?

296. Taiwan on alert for possible SARS mass infection in hospital

297. SARS and AIDS: What the (Chinese) people don't know

298. U.S. to warn road travelers to Ontario about SARS (Be careful driving up the 401)

299. A threat to front-line health workers is a catastrophe for the whole system

300. China will pay dearly for the SARS debacle

301. China: Crack down on SARS or lose the Olympics

302. WHO Warns Travelers Away From Beijing, Shanxi, Toronto

303. SARS Travel Alert Extended

304. Baseball reacts to SARS in Toronto

305. A Breeding Ground? Markets in China selling live animals could be SARS link

306. Authorities near Beijing have blocked a major road (SARS)

307. Sars Soft Drink Unaffected by SARS Scare (Would YOU drink something called Sars?)

308. Fresh doubt cast on Sars cause

309. No Planes Safe Enough (SARS)

310. Airlines, SARS and Codeshares

311. World travellers told to avoid Toronto for at least three weeks

312. Aust virologist leads WHO's fight against SARS (AUSTRALIAN LATELINE INTERVIEW)

313. Beijing Posts Surge in SARS Cases as Infection Fears Mount

314. New Email Virus Exploits SARS Epidemic Concerns

315. [Toronto Mayor] Lastman Hits The Roof [SARS]

316. Toronto Is Put Into 'Quarantine' Over SARS Outbreak

317. Canada Denies Toronto Unsafe For Travelers Because of SARS

318. Beijing Prevents SARS from Spreading Overseas

319. SARS BUG DEADLIER THAN AIDS SAYS DOC

320. SARS BUG DEADLIER THAN AIDS SAYS DOC

321. Who’s SAR-ry now? (a gay advocate's surprising take on AIDS and SARS)

322. List of States With SARS

323. US economy starting to feel effect of SARS

324. SARS SEALS BEIJING HOSPITAL

325. SARS cases reported in Israel.

326. Iraqi Information Minister Reports on SARS Outbreak!

327. FAQ on SARS The Mystery Virus: A Guide to Origins, Symptoms and Precautions You Can Take