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Biotech / Medical : SARS and Avian Flu
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To: Biomaven who started this subject8/25/2003 6:48:13 AM
From: Henry Niman  Read Replies (1) of 4232
 
The story below indicates that Winnipeg is standing behind its data and has raised the issue of a SARS/OC43 recombinant, which is the LAST thing researchers would want to see. In spite of this possibility or the dual infection, also mentioned below, Canadian health officials put out a press release saying the quarantine is over and visits may resume at the nursing home and then they say that Asian country's "don't get it" because they are still issuing warnings about Surrey, BC.

I think that many don't understand the lifting of the quarantine when researchers at Canada's National Lab maintain that the SARS data are real and believe that patients at the nursing home may have a dual infection or are infected by a RECOMBINANT coronavirus.

The script is starting to read like SARS III, but unfortunately no one is saying "Its only a movie".

Test Shows Virus in Vancouver
Isn't Identical to SARS Source

By ELENA CHERNEY
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

online.wsj.com

"Tim Booth, chief of viral diagnostics for the Winnipeg lab, said his lab still stands by its results, which found some genetic material unique to the SARS virus in repeated testing of the nursing-home samples. Dr. Booth said the virus infecting the nursing-home patients and staff could be a recombinant virus, with parts of the SARS coronavirus and parts of a common-cold coronavirus.

Perry Kendall, a British Columbia health officer, said the virus could be a recombinant virus or there could be two different viruses affecting the nursing home."
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