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Seven victims of mystery pneumonia stayed on same floor of Hong Kong hotel
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| 03-19-03
| Margret Wong
Posted on 03/19/2003 11:07:19 AM PST by Mother Abigail
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To: Mother Abigail
This is very odd. Hard to calculate a normal transmission vector from this information...
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To: Mother Abigail
Does everyone notice that one of the folks is a med professor? Kinda makes one wonder what type of projects he was involved in. I bet he was a research type...wanna bet? The rest of these folks are vanella types...but the med guy....he's got a past to him. I bet his lab does unusual type experiments...for the Chinese government. Any bettors out there?
To: pepsionice
The paramyxo viruses are a family of germs that cause mumps, measles and various respiratory diseases, especially in children. Hong Kong medical experts said the strain responsible for Sars seemed to be a mutation in an existing paramyxo virus rather than a previously unknown species.
"The behaviour of the virus is very strange," said Yeoh Eng-kiong, Hong Kong's secretary for health, welfare and food. He said the virus caused a severe illness because it triggered a strong response from the immune system.
There are no drugs with specific activity against paramyxo viruses. However K.Y. Yuen, a doctor at the University of Hong Kong, said patients were being treated with broad-spectrum anti-viral drugs such as ribavirin, as well as steroids to counteract the immune system's harmful response to the virus.
Experts at the World Health Organisation who are co-ordinating the global response to Sars, told a press conference on Wednesday that more research was still needed to pin down the precise strain of paramyxo virus responsible for Sars. "It is similar to seeing the shadow of someone you think you know but the face and the details will only become clear with further testing," said David Heymann, WHO head of communicable diseases.
To: Mother Abigail
Sounds like Legionnaire's Disease.
The difficulty identifying the LD bug was because isolated from its environment, it would not reproduce. It required the proper conditions not found in a culture dish.
However, LD is not contagious between persons. SARS seems to be.
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posted on
03/19/2003 11:18:35 AM PST
by
NautiNurse
(Usama bin Laden has produced more tapes than Steely Dan)
To: pepsionice; Dog Gone; Petronski
Given the extent to which medical staff has gotten this disease, the med professor probably caught it treating somebody in Guangdong, where there was an outbreak of the disease in February.
To: aristeides
These people did not have close contact with each other. How did they become infected?
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posted on
03/19/2003 11:25:49 AM PST
by
CathyRyan
To: Mother Abigail
Run! Run for your life....we're all going to die!!...Oh the humanity....Run.............!
To: NautiNurse
Exactly my first thought.
To: seamole
All staff negative
To: Mother Abigail
Legionnaire's was my first thought also.
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posted on
03/19/2003 11:32:05 AM PST
by
Judith Anne
(If you're pyschic, think "Honk.")
To: aristeides
The window of transmission seems to be almost three weeks.
Was he in the hotel for that long?
To: Judith Anne
I think I remember reading on one of the ProMed links that Legionnaire's was ruled out...that can be identified fairly quickly, iirc.
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posted on
03/19/2003 11:35:17 AM PST
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Judith Anne
(If you're pyschic, think "Honk.")
To: Mother Abigail
If it was just one floor. Why not the other floors as well is well? If it were environmental. Water pipes leading to that one floor? The staff would have been explosed more than a guest would if it were air. Curious.
To: Mother Abigail
But why would the guests have more contact than the staff?
To: bonesmccoy; Jim Noble; LadyDoc; David Hunter
Ping!
To: CathyRyan
To: CathyRyan
Orgy ?
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posted on
03/19/2003 11:49:34 AM PST
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VRWC_minion
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To: CathyRyan
Could not be some built in local immunity becase would not the hospital staff have that? I will shut up I am gabbling.
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