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Biotech / Medical : SARS and Avian Flu -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (731)	5/6/2003 7:16:19 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4232

World at risk if China doesn't curb SARS By MICHAEL DORGAN Knight Ridder Newspapers SU CHANG-CHUNG, Associated Press. BEIJING - Successful efforts to combat the SARS virus in other countries will be undermined if China cannot quickly curb the spread of the epidemic, a World Health Organization official warned Tuesday. "If we don't fix it in China, it will never be fixed anywhere," said Peter Cordingley, spokesman for the WHO's Western Pacific region. "China could re-seed the world." ... Offering the first demographic profile of SARS patients in Beijing, a local Communist Party official, Cai Fuchao, on Tuesday said 73 percent of those who had fallen ill with the pneumonia-like disease have been between the ages of 20 and 50. Nearly 18 percent were over 50, and less than 10 percent were under 20. Only 8 percent of Beijing's SARS patients were preschool children. Dr. James Maguire, an infectious disease specialist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, told Knight Ridder in a recent interview that it was not yet known why children have been largely immune to the epidemic, or why children who do fall ill with SARS tend to be much less sick than adults. The answer is not that children have been less exposed, he said. Because there is not yet a diagnostic test for the virus, it is not known whether children have a resistance to infection. But Maguire said his best guess is that the virus does infect children, even though they may show none of the usual symptoms, which include fever, dry cough and shortness of breath. He suspects that the virus has infected many adults, too, who have not become ill enough to be hospitalized and therefore have not been recorded as official SARS cases. If Maguire is right that the known cases of SARS are merely the "tip of the iceberg," global efforts to eradicate the virus may already be doomed. ... centredaily.com ==================================== sounds like now the only hope is group immunity after sometime.