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| | WHO Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - multi-country outbreak - Update 27 |
 | | SARS is showing how the alert and response activity works in practice for a newly identified disease. | | | Severe Acute Pulmonary Syndrome (SARS) was first identified in Viet Nam on 28 February, 2003, when Dr Carlo Urbani, an epidemiologist from the Hanoi WHO office examined a patient with a severe form of pneumonia for which no etiology could be found. | | | The team concluded that the health system in Guangdong responded well to the outbreak, but that health systems in all other provinces had less capacity to cope with the severity of the challenge posed by SARS. |
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| | Teaching English in Taiwan SARS S.A.R.S. Report |
| | The government has advised pharmacies selling a class of drugs known as antipyretics, found in many over-the-counter pain relievers, to examine the medical history and determine the temperature of potential purchasers before going ahead with the sale. | | | Between 80 percent and 90 percent of patients get better on their own in about a week. | | | It seems that you have to have very close contact with someone who has it. |
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http://www.tealit.com/sarsreport.html
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| | CDC - Diagnostic Criteria during SARS Outbreak in Hong Kong |
| | During the study period, 475 patients were hospitalized with probable SARS. | | | This finding supports the hypothesis that SARS-CoV is transmitted through respiratory droplets and physical contact with a patient's body fluids. | | | Probable SARS case-patients were those who met the CDC clinical criteria for severe respiratory illness of unknown etiology (3), and met the epidemiologic criterion for exposure in either a close or a possible contact. |
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http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol10no6/03-0618.htm
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| | Doctors log on to fight SARS outbreak CNET News.com |
| | Another physician who's been active in distributing information about SARS is David Crippen, a clinical professor at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center who's also the "Listgruppenmeister" (list group master) of the Critical Care Medicine List. | | | Page for health care professionals describing prevention and treatment practices followed at the university.--> | | | The Net has helped spread word of the disease and of preventive techniques, such as those found in guidelines from the Center for Disease control, which recommend, among other things, that SARS patients wear surgical masks while in close contact with uninfected people. |
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http://news.com.com/2100-1025-997045.html
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| | Timeline of the SARS Outbreak |
| | The U.S. National Institute of Health announces it has begun work on developing a vaccine for SARS. | | | The patients were all found to be suffering from other medical problems. | | | Cases affecting medical staff who treated infected patients were also reported. |
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http://www.gartner.com/pages/story.php.id.3557.s.8.jsp
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| | CDC Frequently Asked Questions About SARS |
| | CDC is monitoring this evolving situation in China and will provide additional information on this website as it becomes available. | | | Diarrhea is seen in approximately 10 percent to 20 percent of patients. | | | CDC recommends that patients with SARS receive the same treatment that would be used for a patient with any serious community-acquired atypical pneumonia. |
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http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/faq.htm
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| | March 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Initially listed in critical condition, he was later updated to stable condition. | | | The World Health Organization issues warnings about an atypical pneumonia of unknown cause, dubbed severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). | | | A group of doctors in Hong Kong claims to have identified the agent causing severe acute respiratory syndrome as belonging to the paramyxoviridae family of viruses. |
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http://www.leessummit.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/March_2003
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| | timelines: 2003 SARS Outbreak |
| | Taiwan: Health authorities quarantine over 1,100 doctors, nurses and patients in a hospital; Asian health chiefs meet on ways to standardize the way they tackle SARS and prepare the ground for a Bangkok SARS summit meeting between the 10 ASEAN members and China. | | | Hong Kong: While Hong Kong deaths & the number of new infections continue to rise, healthcare officials say the treatment used to treat SARS—a mix of anti-viral drugs and steroids—is seeing a good response in 80-90 percent of patients. | | | SARS Digest (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) plus CDC Public Health Training |
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http://www.e11th-hour.org/resources/timelines/sars.04.03.html
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| | IOM Workshop. Learning from SARS: Preparing for the Next Disease Outbreak |
| | Are our public health and research investments (human, technical, and financial) flexible enough to respond to the ever-changing profile of microbial threats? | | | Diagnostic, anti-viral, and vaccine development (progress and process) and research | | | SARS has served as the most recent bellwether of the considerable consequences suffered at many levelsâ”public health, economic, psychological, and politicalâ”when unanticipated epidemics arise in a highly connected and interdependent world. |
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http://www.iom.edu/event.asp?id=14647
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| | The color of her skin was also lightened. | | | SARS virus See also: Progress of the SARS outbreak and Severe acute respiratory syndrome On April 16 2003, following the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Asia and secondary cases elsewhere in the world, the World Health Organization issued a press release stating that the coronavirus identified by a number | | | SARS and accusations of racial discrimination With news of the 2002-2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which evidently originated in China and spread from Asia to North America, many have become worried that there may be accusations and racial discrimination against Asians in general. |
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http://www.searchtermtrends.com/terms/sars.html
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| | CNN.com - Taiwan health chief resigns in SARS crisis - May. 16, 2003 |
| | Hundreds of doctors and patients have been quarantined. | | | Meanwhile, the WHO's chief SARS expert said he sees progress in efforts to contain the disease and holds out hope that severe acute respiratory syndrome may never emerge as a worldwide epidemic. | | | They said unless officials move quickly to contain the outbreak in hospitals and do a more effective job of tracing contacts of suspected patients, the epidemic risks taking a further turn for the worse, with potentially serious consequences for the country's health-care system. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/05/16/sars
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| | SARS coronavirus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The SARS coronavirus is the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). | | | See also: Progress of the SARS outbreak and Severe acute respiratory syndrome. | | | On April 16, 2003, following the outbreak of SARS in Asia and secondary cases elsewhere in the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a press release stating that the coronavirus identified by a number of laboratories was the official cause of SARS. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS_virus
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| | BBC NEWS Health Progress made towards Sars drug |
| | Scientists in the US have taken a first step towards developing a specific drug to treat the Sars respiratory disease. | | | Scientists around the world are pulling out all the stops to develop the first drugs and vaccines for Sars. | | | The researchers say it shows promise as an emergency treatment for Sars. |
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| | Science Magazine: Progress on SARS |
| | Recently posted on Science Express: A study charting the molecular evolution of the SARS coronavirus as the 2003 epidemic unfolded in China. | | | Viruses isolated from patients early in the SARS epidemic resemble animal SARS-like viruses, and those from later patients show that the virus evolved rapidly and then stabilized. | | | Structures on an essential protein of two coronaviruses and use of the genome sequence of the SARS coronavirus allows inferences that may help in designing a therapeutic drug. |
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| | WHO: Singapore Makes "Exemplary" Efforts to Control SARS |
| | "Singapore has been one of the most successful countries in its response to SARS," said Dr Heymann. | | | Singapore's actions to contain the SARS outbreak were described as "exemplary" by Dr David Heymann, Executive Director of communicable disease programmes at WHO. | | | Singapore has greatly increased its containment measures aimed at halting further transmission of SARS. |
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| | New Scientist Expert Coverage of Health Medicine Disease Drugs Microbes |
| | There is a possibility the virus is becoming less virulent, but how this would affect the progress of the pandemic or the number of people killed remains unclear | | | The scientists weathered a storm of criticism from the medical establishment to prove beyond doubt the link between a bacterium and stomach ulcers | | | Viruses riding on the body's own immune cells could target and kill stray secondary cancers that emerge after a primary tumour is removed |
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| | wikien.info: Main_Page |
| | Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, is euthanized well short of her natural lifespan because of a progressive lung disease. | | | The World Health Organization confirms that a new outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Republic of the Congo killed 64. | | | Witnesses reportedly saw a man throwing a milk carton filled with a flammable substance into a train. |
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http://www.hostingciamca.com/index.php?title=February_2003
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| | MAY 2003 FACTS AND INFORMATION |
| | A man who had been visiting Toronto is now being treated at Turku University Hospital. | | | A five-hour transit_of_Mercury takes place, an event that occurs roughly 12 times per century. | | | The first confirmed SARS case is reported in Finland. |
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http://www.dontpayyourtaxes.com/May_2003
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