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But he added that they still needed to monitor individual patients' reactions before they could conclude that the virus was curable.
To: per loin; vetvetdoug; gas_dr; Judith Anne; All
The new information from officials indicated the disease had been more widespread in the SAR than originally believed. Yeoh said the pneumonia and suspected cases had now been isolated into 6 "clusters".
Yeoh again stressed the government was not hiding anything.
He insisted there was no sign of an outbreak at the community level.
To: Mother Abigail
BUMP
4 posted on
03/18/2003 4:32:20 PM PST by
CathyRyan
To: Mother Abigail
I'm going to go way out on a limb here and suggest that most Freepers aren't going to find this story by searching with the keyword Paramyxoviridae.
12 posted on
03/18/2003 4:47:45 PM PST by
Dog Gone
To: Mother Abigail
Identifying the virus as a member of the Paramyxoviridae family, Professor John Tam of the department of microbiology of the Chinese University said it was detected by electron microscopy.
A non-scientific question: Did they ever indicate from where this bug comes? It's in the "Para...family", does that equate to naturally occurring, self-mutated?
To: Mother Abigail
Thanks for the info.
"But he added that they still needed to monitor individual patients' reactions before they could conclude that the virus was curable."
Looks like it may hit some harder than others, huh?
19 posted on
03/18/2003 4:55:55 PM PST by
blam
To: Mother Abigail
bump
29 posted on
03/18/2003 5:19:51 PM PST by
tje
To: Mother Abigail
> Yeoh again stressed the government was not hiding anything.
They have a saying in the UK:
Never believe a rumor until it's officially denied.
Anyhow, do we have confirmation of the identification from
any other sources yet?
To: Mother Abigail
Those broad-spectrum anti-biotics and anti-virals can be just as brutal on the system as the disease itself. Still, it's nice to have an option.
37 posted on
03/18/2003 5:46:07 PM PST by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
To: Mother Abigail
The worldwide "panic" on this absolutely laughable. First of all, viruses aren't "curable". One can develop a vaccine against a particular virus which may or may not confer a degree of immunity. But you can't "cure" a virus!
Immunocompromised individuals, the elderly, young infants are always at risk. But most young, healthy individuals will recover as they do from many other "serious" viruses.
The media just loves to hype this BS. Ooooooooh, scary!!!
To: Mother Abigail
What is latest on virus today? Thanks.
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