Wednesday, June 4, 2003

Washington Post:

No New SARS Deaths Reported for 1st Time in 2 Months

For the first time in more than two months, no new deaths were reported yesterday from SARS, the latest indication that the epidemic is subsiding, the World Health Organization said.

The cumulative number of SARS cases worldwide hit 8,402 yesterday, an increase of 10 from the day before. But the number of deaths from severe acute respiratory syndrome was unchanged -- at 772.


9:38:02 PM    comment []  

She had been running a 104-degree fever for nearly a week, and the city's best doctors were stumped. They suspected the 27-year-old businesswoman was suffering from a new flu rumored to have appeared in southern China, but knew nothing about how to treat it. So the patient and her family decided to go to Beijing. [BioSpace]
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Health authorities said today that the number of people they considered infected by a second outbreak of SARS in Toronto had tripled in the last 24 hours, although some officials expressed optimism that the new cluster of cases had reached its peak. [BioSpace]
7:08:02 AM    comment []  

The genome of the SARS virus has not mutated significantly as the virus has spread around the globe. [BioSpace]
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