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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (254)	4/24/2003 7:01:41 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1070

>> This doesn't seem to be something all humans suffer from equally, or diagnosis is wrong, or something.<< We started posting on this yesterday. Maybe chance? Maybe genetic quirks? Maybe differences in health care techniques? Maybe difference in lifestyle? In China, people spit on the floor. In Toronto, many of them drank from the same wine chalice. Ideally, not just medical epidemiologists should be asking the question, but also public health/social services/anthropology types. Not just "where were you in the last two weeks?" but also - What have you eaten in the week or two before you got sick and where? Same for drink. Same for sex. Same for entertainment. Study everything, like a detective. That's how they finally solved the mysteries of kuru and scrapie.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (254)	4/24/2003 7:32:29 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1070

This post on a newsgroup appears to be by a health science - hypothesizes that susceptibility to SARS might be governed in part by genetically modulated mechanisms in the immune system - to be specific, Fc receptors for IgG expressed on macrophages and NK cells. groups.google.com.&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&group=sci.med.&selm=4NZoa.561885%24F1.77783%40sccrnsc04&rnum=1 NK cells are natural killer cells. The case I worked on where the kid died of massive organ failure, he caught Epstein Barr virus (EBV) while taking tacrolimus and some other heavy duty immune suppressants because he had a kidney transplant. A small percentage of people in this situation have their immune system turn on their own bone marrow cells and destroy them, which in causes massive organ failure. The only cure is bone marrow transplants. I wonder if there have been examinations of the bone marrow of people who are really ill with SARS? Also, the type of blood tests that are done when people have leukemia and lymphoma?