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To: tsigprofit who wrote (10960)	3/13/2003 3:48:44 PM
From: Bucky Katt	Respond to of 48461

I live for trading opps like this...It has been building all darn day. As for the bio-rat, I think it will, eventually, make a grand slam type return, just like MHMY and some of the other down & out picks have. The technology they have for dna is big stuff.

To: tsigprofit who wrote (10960)	3/17/2003 11:40:26 AM
From: Bucky Katt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 48461

We have been hearing about the killer pneumonia that is being spread by air travel, and I am thinking there may be a tie-in to the biorat, based on their NIH contract> bigcharts.marketwatch.com{FB210F65-84A5-4BFC-AF29-C8BE61344CB7}&newsid=801196649&symb=XTRN&sid=738448 What do you think? LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists worked Monday to identify the cause of a mysterious type of killer pneumonia that has spread from Asia to Canada and Europe via air travel. Health ministries and airport authorities around the globe were on high alert as Hong Kong's Health Minister Yeoh Eng-kiong announced the number of people infected with the illness there had nearly doubled. Although he said it was too early to talk of an epidemic, he confirmed that nearly 100 people in Hong Kong, most of them medical staff, had fallen ill. Hours later Britain reported its first suspected case. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a global health alert, the first in a decade, about the unusual strain, which does not respond to treatment and has no known cause. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is believed to have killed nine people and infected more than 170 others. It is not clear if it is caused by a virus, a bacterium or a new pathogen. "The reason for issuing this alert is that this is an illness caused by something we can't identify," Iain Simpson of WHO said. "Something is making these people sick. We can identify some of the symptoms they have but we cannot identify the cause at the moment. "We are working flat out to do it, but until we do people around the world need to watch out for these cases," he told Reuters. Governments have warned people against unnecessary travel to China, Hong Kong and Vietnam, where most cases have occurred. Seven people in Canada have been infected and two have died. All those affected in North America and Europe had recently visited Southeast Asia or had a relative who had. Travelers arriving in Hong Kong have been seen wearing surgical masks, and airport officials in the Philippines said anti-viral agents were being sprayed inside aircraft. People in Vietnam, which has reported 50 cases and one death, are stocking up on medicines and masks. CHINESE CONNECTION In Geneva, where two people are in isolation with typical symptoms like breathing difficulties, high fever, chills and dry cough, the WHO said it would work with Chinese health authorities to determine the cause of the illness. WHO experts suspect the first case of SARS appeared in China's southern Guangdong province where 305 people became ill and five died. "With four months of meticulously obtained information from China, we believe we will have the answers to how this disease acts in populations and how we can best deal with it," said David Heymann, head of the WHO communicable diseases section. In Italy, four people who arrived on a Singapore Airlines flight were under observation and airports in the country were on high alert, but no cases have been reported. During the weekend, a Singapore doctor was taken off a plane in Frankfurt after displaying symptoms. He had earlier treated patients with the disease in Singapore, where more than 20 people are now infected. NEW PATHOGEN Scientists have been on heightened alert for the next influenza pandemic, which many believe is already overdue. The WHO alert has heightened fears of an outbreak on the scale of the worst influenza epidemic in the last century that killed more than 20 million people. "People are looking for the next influenza pandemic. That is true. But none of the tests that have been done so far has shown that this (SARS) is caused by influenza," Simpson said. Although cases of SARS are increasing, it is not spreading with the speed of an influenza epidemic and most cases are either directly or indirectly linked to hospitals. "This isn't something that is spreading in large numbers around the world at this point. What we are working to do is to identify what it is and identify what we can do about it before it does spread further," Simpson added. Influenza is caused by a virus and spread from person to person through droplets of moisture in the air exhaled by infected people. Pneumonia is a lung infection which is usually bacterial but can be viral. SARS is atypical because it produces a dry, not wet cough, and does not have the all the symptoms of regular pneumonia. "It is possible that this is a new disease. We can't rule that out but we can't say it for certain," Simpson said. "That is one of the reasons we issued this alert."