[jiggyboy]

China earlier claimed that the Guangdong disease had weakened after successive transmissions

We'll get no real help from China on this disease. As a group, they still really don't believe all that new-fangled mumbo-jumbo about "viruses" and "bacteria" -- it's still usually a question of "energy" or "balance" or "harmony", things that don't replicate themselves or jump from one person to another.

[Mother Abigail]

Two suspected SARS cases in NZ
 

-Doctors treating possible SARS case (01.47)

Medical staff in Auckland are working to treat two patients who may have a deadly pneumonia-like illness that has broken out around the world.

The Auckland Medical Officer of Health Doctor Craig Thornley says both patients have recently travelled in Asia, where Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome has taken hold.

He says the patients, who are being treated in Greenlane and North Shore hospitals, have the symptoms of SARS, including a high fever and difficulty breathing.

Thornley says the two are being kept in isolation and their care is being managed under strict infection control guidelines.

The disease has infected hundreds of people, and killed up to 14 people worldwide in the past three weeks.

Published on Mar 21, 2003

[Mother Abigail]

Health authorities investigate two possible SARS cases in NYC

NEW YORK -- Two New York City residents are possibly suffering from a mysterious respiratory illness that has killed at least 14 people around the world, health officials announced Thursday.

The 67-year-old man and the 27-year-old woman both recently traveled to China and Hong Kong. Most of the suspected cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, have occurred in Asia since late February.