Wednesday, August 20, 2003
SARS SPREADING IN CANADA AGAIN
AS AUTHORITIES TRY TO EXPLAIN IT AWAY
SARS now seems to come with a wide range of symptoms, making tracking it almost impossible
According to newscientist.com, an outbreak of pneumonia, which tests so far indicate may be caused by the SARS virus, appears to be spreading in British Columbia, Canada. The virus had already infected over 150 people and killed six at a nursing home near Vancouver, and now appears to have infected a second nursing home nearby."
AS AUTHORITIES TRY TO EXPLAIN IT AWAY
SARS now seems to come with a wide range of symptoms, making tracking it almost impossible
According to newscientist.com, an outbreak of pneumonia, which tests so far indicate may be caused by the SARS virus, appears to be spreading in British Columbia, Canada. The virus had already infected over 150 people and killed six at a nursing home near Vancouver, and now appears to have infected a second nursing home nearby."
Sunday, August 17, 2003
IS THE INSIDIOUS FUTURE OF SARS
MANIFESTING ITSELF NOW IN A
CANADIAN NURSING HOME?
And, as WHO heads for a pig farm in China, it appears that rats may also be a vector
Great confusion now surrounds the outbreak of SARS or a SARS-like disease in a nursing home in a suburb of Vancouver in British Columbia. Apparently, in July, a number of residents of a nursing home came down with respiratory symptoms that were not as serious as SARS, but given that four people died and a SARS virus or a SARS-like virus was found in many of the patients, workers and residents of the nursing home, there is the real possibility that SARS now comes in several forms. And that means the future SARS epidemic could be nearly impossible to control with the public health tools that were employed during the first SARS epidemic. Chronic or inapparent cases of SARS could not effectively be tracked and quarantined unless the whole population was called in for testing. And even then the effort might be futile.
Meanwhile, BBC is reporting that a research published in the Lancet suggests that rats may be able to carry the SARS coronavirus.
And we are happy to report that according to Associated Press, scientists from the World Health Organization are actually going to visit a pig farm in Guangdong Province in China. Bowing to pressure from this blog, no doubt. Stay tuned.
MANIFESTING ITSELF NOW IN A
CANADIAN NURSING HOME?
And, as WHO heads for a pig farm in China, it appears that rats may also be a vector
Great confusion now surrounds the outbreak of SARS or a SARS-like disease in a nursing home in a suburb of Vancouver in British Columbia. Apparently, in July, a number of residents of a nursing home came down with respiratory symptoms that were not as serious as SARS, but given that four people died and a SARS virus or a SARS-like virus was found in many of the patients, workers and residents of the nursing home, there is the real possibility that SARS now comes in several forms. And that means the future SARS epidemic could be nearly impossible to control with the public health tools that were employed during the first SARS epidemic. Chronic or inapparent cases of SARS could not effectively be tracked and quarantined unless the whole population was called in for testing. And even then the effort might be futile.
Meanwhile, BBC is reporting that a research published in the Lancet suggests that rats may be able to carry the SARS coronavirus.
And we are happy to report that according to Associated Press, scientists from the World Health Organization are actually going to visit a pig farm in Guangdong Province in China. Bowing to pressure from this blog, no doubt. Stay tuned.
