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To: TobagoJack who wrote (32122)	4/22/2003 9:36:49 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Internet cameras, electronic collars, ear thermometers, masks, goggles ... what next ... automatic procto probes at bus stations? Wednesday, April 23, 2003 Detectors installed at Lowu china.scmp.com GARY CHEUNG Shenzhen authorities will check the temperature of passengers crossing the Lowu checkpoint with infrared detectors from today. The Hong Kong government said last night it was also interested in the technology, which can take a person's temperature in one second. Ten infrared detectors were installed yesterday and 40 more will be ready for testing today. Speaking at the checkpoint yesterday, Shenzhen mayor Yu Youjun said authorities planned to install the devices at other border crossings, ports and airports in Shenzhen within a week. The detectors, which cost between 8,000 and 9,000 yuan (HK$7,550 and $8,490) and are more than 90 per cent accurate, take a passenger's temperature when an infrared ray hits his or her forehead. Further medical checks will be carried out on any passenger with a temperature over 38 degrees celsius. A spokesman for the Hong Kong Health Department said the Shenzhen detectors, developed by the Research Institute of Tsinghua University, were among several it was considering.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (32122)	4/22/2003 10:41:36 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Jay, the coronavirus strain that gives diarrheal is actually an old type. And not only HK SARS patients have diarrheal, 25% Guangdong SARS patients also have it. read this. "Coronaviruses have apparently jumped species before: Dr. Konstantin "Gus" Kousoulas, a professor at Louisiana State University who studies coronaviruses in cattle, published a paper back in 1993 describing a bovine-like coronavirus strain in a child in Germany. Could that strain have been related to today's SARS? Dr. Kousoulas thinks it's possible. But Dr. Klaus Stohr of the World Health Organization is skeptical, and says it's too early to tell. The German child's symptoms were diarrheal, not respiratory. But in animals, scientists have seen a coronavirus switch from being a diarrheal disease to a respiratory disease as the virus becomes lodged in a different tissue and genetically evolves. A respiratory coronavirus seen in chickens causes gasping, coughing and watery eyes, among other symptoms. Some human patients have reported diarrheal symptoms in the current SARS outbreak." forbes.com