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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (771)	10/1/2003 8:24:47 AM
From: Henry Niman	of 1070

Looks like adminstrators have taken charge of SARS. In Taiwan the lowered the case fatality rate from 27% to 11% by simply removing those who died while infected by SARS CoV as long as they had an underlying condition. Looks like WHO is getting more proactive, moving from wishful thinking to history revision. Using some creativity in defining a SARS death Taiwan has dropped its case fatality rate from 27% who.int to 11% who.int by simply changing the definition. >===== Original Message From "Henry L Niman, PhD" <henry_niman@hms.harvard.edu> ===== abc.net.au Taiwan welcomes revision of SARS toll Taiwan has hailed the World Health Organization for revising the island's death toll from SARS to 37 from the previously listed 180. WHO made the adjustment after ruling that 143 of the fatalities on the initial list had not in fact died from Severe Acute Respiratory Disease. The discrepancy arose because WHO had included in its list people who had contracted SARS, but had died from other causes. A spokesman from Taiwan's Center for Disease Control has welcomed the revision, saying it would help the epidemic be better understood by the world.

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