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SARS Mystery Deepens (Virus details)
Newsday ^
| April 1, 2003
| Laurie Garrett
Posted on 04/01/2003 7:55:55 PM PST by EternalHope
SARS Mystery Deepens
By Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
April 1, 2003, 8:47 PM EST
Amid heightened concern about the new illness known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, the mystery of just what it is deepens. Scientists working on the Toronto outbreak reported that the agent responsible is "a novel virus that is not closely related to any of the known clusters of coronaviruses, the prime family of suspected microbes.
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Autopsies revealed the virus caused parts of the lungs to hemorrhage blood, as would be the case with a hemorrhagic fever virus such as Ebola.
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... Canadian SARS Study Team isolated viruses from several patients, performed genetic analysis of the viral RNA and concluded that the culprit's "conserved region -- the hallmarks of a species -- is 78 percent identical to similar sections of genes found in common coronaviruses. But the study found other sections of the virus' RNA bear no resemblance to any known coronavirus, either human or animal.
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...unpublished data indicate the virus "looks more like an animal coronavirus than a human one, but we don't know what animal yet.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; lauriegarrett; sars; virus
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This has the first specific info I have seen on the virus. The whole article is worth reading.
To: EternalHope; CathyRyan
Thank you very much for posting this.
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posted on
04/01/2003 7:57:20 PM PST
by
Judith Anne
(God bless our soldiers with swift victory...)
To: EternalHope
other sections of the virus' RNA bear no resemblance to any known coronavirus
And China has been very reluctant to allow anybody access.
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posted on
04/01/2003 7:59:14 PM PST
by
Arkinsaw
To: EternalHope
Clever these Chinese.
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To: EternalHope
It's now in Georgia which makes five southern states it's now in:
Alabama 1
California 14
Connecticut 1
Georgia 1
Hawaii 3
Illinois 2
Kansas 1
Maine 2
Massachusetts 2
Michigan 2
Missouri 2
Mississippi 1
Minnesota 3
New Hampshire 1
New Jersey 2
New Mexico 1
North Carolina 2
New York 10
Ohio 1
Pennsylvania 3
Rhode Island 1
Texas 3
Utah 4
Virginia 3
Washington 1
Wisconsin 2
Total US yesterday = 59 today = 69
Not good
Canada now has 129 which includes 4 kids, two of them under 24 months old. At the high rise in Hong Kong that has so many (213) - they are taking the inhabitants to quarantine camps but many got away into the population yesterday before the quarantine officials came this morning. Because of this high rise, they are now saying that SARS is most probably airborne.
N95 masks are now selling for 50% higher then three days ago on eBay and stores are starting to run out in the US, especially in those states where there are suspected cases.
As a note, the US has only said that cases are suspected, they refuse to admit that any of them are SARS. Some of this is due to the definition that says the person so affected must have traveled to China, Hong Kong, Vietnam or Singapore or been in direct contact with someone who was infected. Since 80% of the SARS cases don't need to be or end up in the hospital, who knows how many actual cases are out there.
Oil of Oregano, Olive Leaf Extract and Elderberry are still the herbs of choice. see:
http://www.vitaminusa.com/micmodtecnot.html Wash you hands, often, especially after having touched things in public. Keep your hands away from your face unless you wash them first.
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posted on
04/01/2003 8:02:52 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(http://www.politicsandprotest.org/attack.swf)
To: EternalHope
Makes me wonder if the Chinese have been monkeying with some virus genetics.
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posted on
04/01/2003 8:05:04 PM PST
by
aimhigh
To: aimhigh
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posted on
04/01/2003 8:09:04 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(http://www.politicsandprotest.org/attack.swf)
To: EternalHope
To: aimhigh
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posted on
04/01/2003 8:13:46 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(http://www.politicsandprotest.org/attack.swf)
To: aimhigh
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posted on
04/01/2003 8:17:53 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(http://www.politicsandprotest.org/attack.swf)
To: aimhigh
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posted on
04/01/2003 8:19:11 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(http://www.politicsandprotest.org/attack.swf)
To: Calpernia
Thanks for posting. The obvious concern is an accidental release from some germ-warfare experiment, a la Captain Trips. I hope this isn't the case, that it's just something from the rural animal-human microbe brewery that naturally exists in Guangdong farming...
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posted on
04/01/2003 8:25:49 PM PST
by
Judith Anne
(God bless our soldiers with swift victory...)
To: Calpernia
And apparently the Guangdong province border is near Hong Kong.
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posted on
04/01/2003 8:28:45 PM PST
by
Judith Anne
(God bless our soldiers with swift victory...)
To: The Great Satan
Is it normal for a newly discovered virus to be this different from its closest cousins?
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posted on
04/01/2003 8:29:52 PM PST
by
EternalHope
(Chirac is funny, France is a joke.)
To: nopardons; bonesmccoy
heads UP!
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posted on
04/01/2003 8:30:10 PM PST
by
demosthenes the elder
(scum will never cease to be scum - why must that be explained to anyone?)
To: Calpernia
"Not Good...
Wash you hands, often, especially after having touched things in public. Keep your hands away from your face unless you wash them first."
DITTOS AND DOUBLE DITTOS.
Thank you Capernia for posting this. I had NO IDEA this had reached the US, tho' to be truthful I knew it was only a matter of time. There is something mighty fishy (and I don't mean a cross-species source for the ailment) about this whole thing, or I suppose it could be a new "Spanish Flu". That also was incredibly fast moving, killed the young and the healthy, and spread at a time of war.
This is not good.
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posted on
04/01/2003 8:33:54 PM PST
by
jocon307
To: EternalHope
**unpublished data indicate the virus "looks more like an animal coronavirus than a human one, but we don't know what animal yet.**
I read a few days ago that it might have come from a horse. Has anyone else seen that?
To: EternalHope
Something you snippedAn analysis of cases in Hong Kong from February 22 to March 22 found the virus was not hitting the customarily susceptible populations -- the very young and very old -- as the mean age of patients was 52. Similarly, few patients were smokers or people with underlying health problems.
Now wouldn't that be something, smoke and stay healthy.
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