SARS clues might be in blood banks in China

Washington Times ^ | 6-2-03 | Amy Fagan

[Prince Charles]

A top World Health Organization scientist says supplies at blood banks in China should be tested for SARS antibodies to learn whether people have been exposed to a similar virus in the past.

"It's important for us to learn about how long this virus has been around," said WHO virologist Klaus Stohr during a daylong SARS brainstorming and briefing session held by the National Institutes of Health on Friday.

[theFIRMbss]

> "It's important for us to learn about how long this virus has been around," said WHO virologist Klaus Stohr

Hell, I'd like to see
blood banks tested all over
to determine if

coronavirus
is specific to China,
or if it's common.

[aristeides]

Don't we know from blood in blood banks that there were sporadic cases of AIDS decades before the 1980's?

[Judith Anne]

One of the things I remember reading recently is that poor farmers who donate blood to supplement their income were routinely subjected to HIV infected needles. There's a lot of HIV in rural areas of China directly related to the practice of selling blood with dirty collection technique.

So I wouldn't be surprised to learn that SARS has been transmitted that way. In whatever way the virus can get around, it does so in China...

[Judith Anne]

Should read, "...poor CHINESE farmers who donate blood..."

[CathyRyan]

I think a sailor's blood from 57 was test and was positive and someone posted here that some blood from 49 tested positive. IIRC

[CathyRyan]

I checked on google and one site said 59 for the sailor.

[vetvetdoug]

They found analagous AIDS virus in individuals that died as far back as 1959. The tissue was in a pathologist's office on a slide from that date. It was very sporadic then, unfortunately, the homosexual lifestyle was a disease amplifier. Now its entrenched in both homosexual and heterosexual populations.

[Betty Jo]

Hmmmmmm......

"Whether certain races are more susceptable"

"This is an area that deserves special attention"(why children with SARS fare much better)...Robert Webster,virologist from St. Judes Children Hospital

"There's a secret here"

St. Judes, where Don Wiley was on the board.

Certain races, maybe Arabic?

Just call me a paranoid conspiracy nut.

Kill everyone except the kids.

Hmmmm....billions of orphans to train your way.

African AIDS orphans are supposed to number 40 million by 2012, I think.

Hmmmmm....

I think I'll go Google.