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

To: Ilaine who wrote (753)	9/26/2003 5:50:07 PM
From: Henry Niman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1070

SARS is transmitted by close contact and began in Guangdong province, so most who were initially infected were ethnic Chinese (patients, family, health care workers). Even when it spread from the Metropole Hotel, the index cases were ethnic Chinese. Most of the health care workers who developed were involved in high risk procedures (i.e. intubation) and non-ethnic Chinese like Allison Greer in Toronto also developed SARS. The ethnic angle will almost certainly end up being nonsense. I suspect outbreaks in Canada and the US will quickly dispell the genetic susceptibility theories. The virus grows in civets and raccoon dogs and I suspect the 29 nt deletion knocks out a major immunological target.