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Pastimes : SARS - what next? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (554)	6/18/2003 7:11:27 PM
From: Henry Niman	Respond to of 1070

>>I might even take a trip to Shanghai and Beijing just to taunt them!<< Not necessary. They will come knocking at your door when cold and flu season returns and most immune systems won't have a clue (especially baby boomers and older).

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (554)	6/18/2003 9:51:41 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 1070

SARS Epidemic May Reemerge, CDC Director Warns story.news.yahoo.com

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (554)	6/18/2003 10:09:07 PM
From: Henry Niman	Respond to of 1070

Lab finds 120 more people may have had SARS thestar.com FROM CANADIAN PRESS As many as 120 people who aren't on the list of Canada's probable or suspect SARS cases may actually have had the disease, testing done by Health Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory has shown. And experts say it's crucial to find those individuals and figure out whether they actually had SARS and whether they have spread it to others. "It's a worry. It's an important thing to try to figure out why, (and) what this means," said scientific director Dr. Frank Plummer.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (554)	6/18/2003 10:56:43 PM
From: Henry Niman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1070

Sounds like some in Toronto are still holding out for CARS (but whatever they call it, it is clear that the SARS CoV has spread far and wide in Toronto and they haven't even begun to look to see just how far and wide): "Dr. Andrew Simor, chief microbiologist at Toronto's Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, said testing done by their lab corroborates the Winnipeg lab's findings. "We've also found a handful of these people at our hospital. And it's hard to know how to interpret them," he admitted.