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To: TobagoJack who wrote (32120)	4/22/2003 9:33:09 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi Jay, this is very bullish for Campbell's soup and alike ... Mutant virus may now be attacking intestines Wednesday, April 23, 2003 hongkong.scmp.com MARY ANN BENITEZ University of Hong Kong microbiologist Malik Peiris last night warned that the Sars virus may have mutated and said it is now attacking not only the lungs but the intestines of patients. Professor Peiris, whose team identified the coronavirus as the cause of Sars, said evidence that the virus may have changed came in comparisons between early cases and those at Amoy Gardens. "Even in the early cases ... while the virus was primarily causing pneumonia, some of the patients had diarrhoea," he said. "[But] in the Amoy Gardens outbreak it seemed that this diarrhoea component was more pronounced. So there seems to be a slight change in the pattern of the clinical presentation." Two-thirds of the 321 infected Amoy Gardens residents suffered from diarrhoea, having fallen victim to a more severe form of Sars. Nineteen have died so far. The professor, speaking on RTHK Radio Three last night, said that whether this was due to the route of infection or because the virus itself had changed was "at this point uncertain". He stressed that the virus mutating was "just one possibility". "The other possibility is that the patients who got infected at Amoy Gardens got infected by a different route from the previous patients who got infected through the droplet route. As you know from the report into Amoy Gardens, the sewage route of transmission has been strongly implicated," he said. The World Health Organisation yesterday questioned the government report on the Amoy Gardens outbreak, and is sending its own team to investigate the cause of the virus's spread on the Ngau Tau Kok housing estate. If the virus is infecting the intestines, experts believe Sars could be transmitted via human waste to the mouth, in much the same way as cholera or hepatitis A.