From The New York Times: "The findings on severe acute respiratory syndrome by Canada's main virology laboratory have puzzled health officials."

Canadian researchers have found that the recently sequenced coronavirus is turning up in only 40% of the suspected SARS cases in Canada. Could it be that the coronavirus is not the sole cause of SARS?

Stay tuned.

-Tim
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Here's an interesting article from Reason Online questioning what spreads faster: SARS or the misinformation about it.

-Tim
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Computerworld News:. The Coronex worm uses a variety of subject lines, message bodies and attachment names to entice users into double-clicking including: "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome", "SARS Virus" and Hongkong.exe.

I am saddened to hear that there are people our there who take advantage of this serious public health issues to cause even more suffering.

-Tim
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BBC News: An outraged Mayor Mel Lastman berates the World Health Organization for warning people to stay away from the Canadian city.
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New York Times:. Officials urged 1.7 million primary and secondary students to study at home for two weeks to combat the spread of SARS. At the same time, China announced another 105 SARS cases.
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We are frightened of SARS and rightfully so. I think that it is instructive to learn from history, so I highly recommend a book by Gina Kolata entitled, Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic. This highly readable book chronicles the largely forgotten 1918 flu pandemic which killed between 20 and 40 million people on a worldwide basis then mysteriously disappeared. It is important to remember that SARS is not caused by an influenza virus but, nonetheless, much can be learned by reading this book.

-Tim
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AP:Scientists are scrambling to evaluate existing drugs to find an effective treatment for SARS. To date the focus has been on anti-viral drugs. One exisiting anti-viral, ribavirin, has been used extensively in Hong Kong and Toronto but U.S. researchers have found it to be ineffective for the treatment of SARS. U.S. researchers have instead focused their attention on protease inhibitors, which have been effective in the control of the HIV virus.
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