SARS cases on the rise in Canada, may be spreading even further, 12 people showing symptoms

Globe And Mail ^ | 03-23-03 | Canadian Press

[Mother Abigail]

SARS cases on the rise in Canada

Canadian Press

Toronto — Two more people in Ontario are suspected of having the deadly and mysterious severe acute respiratory syndrome, health officials said Sunday. One of the two new cases is categorized as probable and the other as suspected, Colin D'Cunha, Ontario's Commissioner of Public Health, told reporters Sunday. Also, the emergency ward of the Scarborough Hospital's Grace division in east-end Toronto has been closed to allow medical staff to focus on the disease.

The two new cases bring Ontario's total to 10 probable and four suspected, said Allison McGeer, head of infection control for Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. Three of the probable cases have died thus far.

The illness may be spreading even further as public health staff are monitoring another cluster of about 12 people who appear to be showing symptoms of SARS. Sunday's news comes a day after officials announced that a third victim, who had been classified as a probable case, had died Friday.

It's believed the man in his 70s contracted SARS after being placed in an observation room with Chi Kwai Tse, a 44-year-old man who later died. Mr. Tse was the son of Sui-chu Kwan, the first Toronto person to die of the illness

[Mother Abigail]

You are correct in your observations

[keri]

Thank you.

[CathyRyan]

Like I have said before, it is not the dying that has me worried so much as the hospital bill does.

[Mother Abigail]

You are quite welcome

[keri]

The difference is all in the will, isn't it?

[Judith Anne]

I agree completely. Been there. ;-D

[Porterville]

SARS- I want my retirement money now!!! Where do I file??
Oh, that SARS.

[Judith Anne]

Thanks, just thinking about my rural area...

[Mother Abigail]

Yes

[blam]

"In the early days no one knew..."

Quit it. (I'm already sufficently concerned.)

[blam]

....and, We have West Nile Virus season coming.

[Mother Abigail]

March 24, 2003
Monday
 
         
Make-shift rooms were set up to examine patients with any signs of pneumonia just outside the Emergency department of Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) in Singapore Saturday, March 22, 2003. TTSH has stopped admitting patients to its emergency department and ICU wards as an enhanced precautionary measures to break the transmission of the mystery illness, and to free up TTSH's resources to isolate and treat all pneumonia patients for the next two weeks. AP

SINGAPORE (AP) - Singapore's health minister said the city-state would devote one of its main hospitals to only treating patients with a mysterious flu-like illness that has sickened 51 people locally and hundreds worldwide.

Tan Tock Seng Hospital, which houses the Communicable Diseases Centre, will now only admit patients suspected of having severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, said Health Minister Lim Hng Kiang on Saturday. Other patients there would be transferred out.

[Mother Abigail]

May not be important...

[Mother Abigail]

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A CHRONOLOGICAL COMPILATION OF THE "SARS" OUTBREAK AS REPORTED ON FREE REPUBLIC

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1. Precognition

2. Hong Kong Health Secretary calls for calm as SARS cases double, (83 up from 42 on Sunday)

3. LATEST SARS UPDATE - DETAILED MEDICAL INFORMATION

4. BREAKING BIG: POSSIBLE PATHOGEN DETECTED IN SARS CASE

5. Killer Virus (SARS) Identified

6. Seven victims of mystery pneumonia stayed on same floor of Hong Kong hotel

7. Guangdong doctor linked to SARS outbreak

8. President of the American Society of Microbiology on SARS - "Everything says it is airborne."

9. CDC increases SARS cases to 22 in U.S.

10. CHINA CONFIRMS CASES AND DEATHS (SARS) - HONG KONG SITUATION DETERIORATING - 22 CASES IN US

11. Causative agent of SARS virus isolated from lung tissue - test is reliably identifying cases

12. VIETNAM NEW SARS HOT ZONE, U.S. Warns Citizens in Vietnam To leave   

[blam]

"May not be important..."

UGH!
(I think I know what you mean...you can quit it too.)

[Mother Abigail]

You are quite welcome

[Mother Abigail]

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