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'Super-spreader' theory weighed
Reuters ^
| April 22, 2003
| Maggie Fox
Posted on 04/22/2003 2:10:58 AM PDT by sarcasm
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:09:39 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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ASHINGTON - On March 10, before anyone had heard the term SARS, 18 doctors, nurses, and medical students from Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong were out with fevers.
A few telephone calls later, Dr. Joseph Sung's team at the hospital had the alarming news that at least 50 health care workers were ill. All had severe acute respiratory syndrome.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: sars; superspreader
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posted on
04/22/2003 2:10:58 AM PDT
by
sarcasm
To: Thud
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posted on
04/22/2003 4:22:19 AM PDT
by
Dark Wing
To: sarcasm
The 26 year super spreader was probably given medicine using a nebulizer which did a great job of making an aerosol spreading virus spread from doctor to nurse to intern to patients.
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posted on
04/22/2003 4:31:31 AM PDT
by
twntaipan
(Defend American Liberty: Defeat a demoncRAT!)
To: sarcasm
Doctors now are beginning to abandon the idea that super-spreaders represent something special in the SARS epidemic, which has killed at least 218 people and infected about 3,900 around the world.Now THAT is a scary sentence.
A_R
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