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Pastimes : SARS - what next?
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To: Ilaine who started this subject8/19/2003 8:18:03 AM
From: Henry Niman   of 1070
 
SARS Surrey Science Fiction

The health officials on Vancouver are working over time to come up with nonsense to explain away the SARS epidemic in Surrey. Science fiction writers beware. You have some stiff competition:

"..the comments by Plummer appeared to annoy B.C. public health officials, who want to prevent people jumping to the conclusion that SARS has killed .."

"We do not have severe acute respiratory syndrome here -- we have some positive lab samples," insisted Dr. Roland Guasparini, chief medical health officer for the Fraser Health Authority.

"..the results from the Winnipeg lab do not yet draw a direct line between the cold-like symptoms in nearly 150 nursing home residents and staff at the Kinsmen Place Lodge because not enough of the SARS genome has been sequenced ..."

"Our priority now is to get more tissue so they can grow the virus and get samples rich in genetic material. At this point, we can't say SARS caused these deaths. We can only say that a test designed to detect SARS found some positive results," Patrick said.

Guasparini said health officials here are now checking to see what samples were sent to Winnipeg. He said he remains somewhat skeptical about the laboratory findings because the genetic testing is too new to be definitely foolproof.

"Maybe if they tested everyone with a cold, some would test positive," he said.

canada.com
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