BREAKING BIG: POSSIBLE PATHOGEN DETECTED IN SARS CASE

PROMED ^ | 03-18-03

[null and void]

A cod is as good as a winkle to a blind sea horse...

[Mother Abigail]

CUMULATIVE NUMBER OF REPORTED SUSPECT AND PROBABLE CASES

OF

SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME

FROM: 1 FEB 2003

TO: 17 MAR 2003

Country	Total number of case(s)	Number of deaths	Local transmission
Germany	1	0	None*
Canada	8	2	Yes
Singapore	20	0	Yes
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China	95	1 **	Yes
Switzerland	2	0	To be determined
Thailand	1	0	None*
Viet Nam	40	1	Yes
Total	167	4

Thank you,

Remember that the Hong Kong numbers are bogus - Follow freeper per loin - he is on the case big time. There is a major outbreak in Hong Kong and no one knows the true scope at this time. Do Not travel in the area.

[Dialup Llama]

>So far I've learned you can get chlamydia from an arthropod,

Does that mean you'll stop going on blind dates with arthropods?

[hispanarepublicana]

Sanitation is not what it is here, apparently.

All you have to do to prove it is ask a restaurant inspector about Chinese restaurants.

[hocndoc]

null and void: Don't get crabby....

Oberon: Feeling crabby, are we? Perhaps we'd get along better if we all weren't so shellfish.

Scabies we should all just clam down, if we can mange it.

[riri]

All you have to do is visit my mother-in-law's, from Thailand, home. Eeek.

[Oberon]

Scabies we should all just clam down, if we can mange it.

You think we're getting tube oysterous?

[hispanarepublicana]

You think we're getting tube oysterous?

Any noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys and oyster most.

[Judith Anne]

Thanks for pinging me...this is fascinating.

[Mother Abigail]

By CHER JIMENEZ

TODAY Reporter

Another Filipino worker abroad, in addition to the five earlier reported in Singapore, is believed to have contracted the still mysterious but deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), described in a weekend worldwide advisory as a "global health threat."

Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas said Merlita Luzon has been placed in isolation at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong since March 13 for observation.

Luzon fell sick after bringing food to a friend of her employer and was rushed to hospital three days after.

At the moment, all returning workers have to fill up a checklist that health authorities believe will enable them to monitor incidents -- incipient and full-blown -- of the SARS, the symptoms of which include severe coughing, high fever, sore throat, respiratory difficulty and body weakness.

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that 434 people in six countries, mostly in Asia, have been identified carrying the disease.

As a precaution, health units in the entire country have been mobilized to monitor possible cases.
Interior Secretary Joey Lina has instructed city and town mayors to assist the national government in its efforts to prevent the entry and spread of SARS, the cause of which remains unknown. It has not responded to antibiotics and retrovirals.

[hocndoc]

Oberon: You think we're getting tube oysterous?

No, just the urchins we always were

[CathyRyan]

Why am I starting to get a bad feeling about this?

[Mother Abigail]

Mystery virus victim in Dublin hospital

A man suspected to be suffering from a mystery pneumonia virus is being treated in a Dublin hospital.

The Irish government's Department of Health and Children and the NDSC said the man being treated in Dublin recently returned on a flight from South East Asia.

[Nitro]

Main Entry: para·myxo·vi·rus
Pronunciation: "par-&-'mik-s&-"vI-r&s
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin
Date: 1962
: any of a family (Paramyxoviridae) of single-stranded RNA
viruses (as the mumps, measles, and Newcastle disease
viruses)

[gas_dr]

Yes, but do you trust that the chinese would not attempt to engineer something and then test it on its on subjects. Tinfoil alert to be sure, but I am just not sure -- it seems unlikely to have a new, infective bug that CDC goes crazy about timed so close to IRAQ war...just call me Oliver Stone I suppose

[CathyRyan]

Who are all these people having casual contact with?

That is rhetorical

[Judith Anne]

This is fascinating, very bad news if true...

[ApesForEvolution]

Actually, two ozs. of Bacardi 151 in a steaming cup of green tea with half a lemon squeezed in and several teaspoons of honey...followed by bed rest...seems to work.

[Born in a Rage]

My kids has RSV too, it's very scary and we could have lost my twins as they were only 4 months when they got it. But the breathing treatments have continued throughout the years as RSV can leave children with asthma and a tendency to need treatments even when coming down with what other kids would experience as a mild cold. My kids are going on 9 and 7 (the twins) now and 2 of them seem to be outgrowing the afteraffects now but my one twin just recently needed the breathing treatments and steroids again. Do you have your child sleeping up on a bit of an incline? This is what I did/was advised to do as the mucus is less inclined to settle...so breathing is easier. Ask your doctor about it. I can totally understand how scary RSV is, we have had many trips to the ER in the past. There is a FReeper here who was actively trying to get hospitals to give immunizations to at risk babies for RSV. A vaccine is available but not offered as the cost of it is 'too high'. I wish doctors and hospitals would educate people about RSV and offer the vaccine....

[Judith Anne]

I agree, it is possible that the Chinese would test it...there are, after all, a billion of them over there...maybe an undesirable village was the location for experimentation...

Then again, maybe this is just overdue, from nature's cauldron...