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The new bioterrorists
Washington Times ^ | 4/17/03 | Robert Goldberg

Posted on 04/17/2003 12:06:35 AM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:02:40 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Here's a story ripped from today's headlines. A mysterious flu-like disease with no known cure which originated in southern China in November hits Hong Kong in March. It kills dozens, and sickens and infects thousands there. It spreads, leaving that health-care system on the brink of collapse, and moves like wildfire throughout the world and to America thanks to travelers.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bioterrorism; sars

1 posted on 04/17/2003 12:06:35 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
Bump!
2 posted on 04/17/2003 12:56:17 AM PDT by DB (©)
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To: aristeides; InShanghai; riri; EternalHope; CathyRyan; blam; flutters; Petronski; Domestic Church; ..
...one biotech company, AVI BioPharma, says it should be able to develop a drug that would attack the SARS virus within a week of receiving its genetic code, which researchers in Canada just discovered this weekend.

How realistic could that be?

3 posted on 04/17/2003 12:59:48 AM PDT by InShanghai (I was born on the crest of a wave, and rocked in the cradle of the deep.)
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To: InShanghai
AVIBioPharma claims to have an effective antiviral for another coronavirus. One week? Maybe. If it is a tweak of something they already have.
4 posted on 04/17/2003 1:28:36 AM PDT by eno_
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To: InShanghai
"How realistic could that be?"

Don't know but great if it works.

5 posted on 04/17/2003 8:38:40 AM PDT by blam
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