New York Times: "The relapses in Hong Kong are another sign of the critical need for doctors to develop a diagnostic test for the disease." By Keith Bradsher With Lawrence K. Altman
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AP via Yahoo: "The government is about to ship to laboratories the first experimental diagnostic tests that may help doctors tell which people with worrisome coughs and fevers really have the SARS virus. Probable cases of the new respiratory illness in the United States have slowly climbed to 52."
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AP via Yahoo: The chunks of brown bark, yellowish slivers of roots and dried light-green flower buds look more like garden mulch than medicine. But millions of Chinese believe this traditional herbal remedy 'Ba Wei,' or 'Eight Ingredients' ; offers some of the best protection against the SARS."
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Great SARS RSS Feed from our friends at BioSpace.

-Tim
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East Asia News: "Beijing's new mayor denied speculation that the capital was about to be sealed off, but admitted that its hospitals were overloaded with SARS cases as China and Hong Kong reported 18 new deaths. Mayor Wang Qishan dismissed rumours that the city of 13 million people would soon be closed off from the rest of the world or dusted with anti-SARS medications by aircraft at night."
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Wired News: "As doctors scramble to contain the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, researchers are hunting for a treatment. The latest step is a SETI@home-like distributed computing project to test the effectiveness of potential drugs against the virus." By Kristen Philipkoski.
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