Microbiologist: SARS now attacking intestines

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH.com.au) ^ | April 23, 2003 | DPA

[Not Insane]

__We are tea drinkers and do not fall ill when everyone around us does.__

I've had the same experience, except for me the majic elixer is coffee - or margaritas...

[seeker41]

Not handy..but I'll look.

[seeker41]

There have now been almost 4,000 probable cases of Sars worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Found this at the BBC...

[Domestic Church]

I recall reading it and the link on that rat coronavirus. It had high morbidity and no mortality in rats...but it reduced fertility in them. I remember commenting about the potential(possible/probable - you pick) use for population control.It also affected the lacrymal glands. I remember the prefixes adeno and lacrym in the lengthy name and maybe the virus name began with an R.

Didn't someone recently post an article about the swollen & red eyes of a Vietnamese nurse survivor?

[Not Insane]

I don't have TV. The first I heard of Sars was two weeks ago, here on FR.

It's nice to be able to skip the panic part.

[Lysander]

I could never understand why anyone would want a rat as a pet.

I agree. Now a Gerbil I can understand...

[Domestic Church]

"There is no way you can hope to vaccinate and protect your own troops and population."

No need to vaccinate in China...this answers their population issue. Even if their population is cut in half they will have enough still for manufacturing and a standing army.

[seeker41]

The current 5.6 percent death rate for SARS is much higher than that for the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, which was less than 1 percent, said Stoehr. But the influenza pandemic killed from 20 million to 40 million people in the world because it spread so quickly.

From Salt lake Tribune http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Apr/04222003/nation_w/50118.asp

[Not Insane]

Oil of Oregano? Check this out:
http://www.drweil.com/app/cda/drw_cda.html-command=TodayQA-questionId=3200-pt=Question

[Chemist_Geek]

Yes, Colloidal silver is good, but a little iffy. I understand you shouldn't use it on a prolonged basis. I bought some SeaSilver liquid vitamins but only used one bottle.

Ah, yeah...

[Mr. Mojo]

Wow, diarrhea with the flu! Imagine that.

[RightWhale]

If this thing gets out of hand it will decimate whole populations.

SARS is so over.

[Mr. Mojo]

You can voice your skepticism until you're blue in the face, but good luck getting the supplement pushers to listen : )

[aristeides]

It's a bit misleading to say that SDA in rats has a low mortality rate. While technically that's true (the disease itself kills very few rats,) many rats who contract the disease outside a sterile lab setting die from secondary infections that the SDA makes them vulnerable to.

[aristeides]

What can you tell us about the parallels with Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP)?

[aristeides]

Cathy Ryan tells me that it was riri that posted that information about the genome.

[jiggyboy]

Hear hear. Listening to one of them in the office snorting the same 5 ml of snot back into his head every 30 seconds is enough to make you want to put on a hazmat suit.

[goodnesswins]

Hmmmmm...was here name "Lorene?"

[seeker41]

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Cumulative Number of Reported Probable Cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

From: 1 Nov 2002¹ To: 22 Apr 2003, 17:00 GMT+2

See Affected Areas, 22 April 2003

Country	Cumulative number of case(s)	Number of new cases since last WHO update	Final Status		Local chain(s) of transmission3	Date of last report
			Number of deaths	Number recovered 2
Australia	3	0	0	3	None	17 Apr 2003
Brazil	2	0	0	0	None	16 Apr 2003
Canada	139	7	13	65	Yes	22 Apr 2003
China	2001	42	92	1201	Yes	22 Apr 2003
China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region4	1434	32	99	461	Yes	22 Apr 2003
China, Taiwan	29	0	0	21	Yes	22 Apr 2003
France	5	0	0	1	None	21 Apr 2003
Germany	7	1	0	6	None	22 Apr 2003
India	1	0	0	1	None	21 Apr 2003
Indonesia	1	0	0	0	None	19 Apr 2003
Italy	3	0	0	2	None	22 Apr 2003
Japan	2	-3	0	0	None	22 Apr 2003
Kuwait	1	0	0	1	None	20 Apr 2003
Malaysia	6	0	1	0	None	22 Apr 2003
Mongolia	3	0	0	3	None	17 Apr 2003
Philippines	2	0	1	1	None	21 Apr 2003
Republic of Ireland	1	0	0	1	None	21 Apr 2003
Romania	1	0	0	1	None	21 Apr 2003
Singapore	186	2	16	110	Yes	22 Apr 2003
South Africa	1	0	0	0	None	9 Apr 2003
Spain	1	0	0	0	None	21 Apr 2003
Sweden	3	0	0	0	None	21 Apr 2003
Switzerland	1	0	0	1	None	21 Apr 2003
Thailand	7	0	2	5	None	22 Apr 2003
United Kingdom	6	0	0	5	Yes	22 Apr 2003
United States	38	-1	0	not available	Yes	21 Apr 2003
Viet Nam	63	0	5	46	Yes	17 Apr 2003
Total	3947	80	229	1935

Notes

As SARS is a diagnosis of exclusion, the status of a reported case may change over time. This means that previously reported cases may be discarded after further investigation and follow-up.

1. The start of the period of surveillance has been changed to 1 November 2002 to capture cases of atypical pneumonia in China that are now recognized as being cases of SARS.

2. Includes cases who are "discharged" or "recovered" as reported by the national public health authorities.

3. National public health authorities report to WHO on the areas in which local chain(s) of transmission is/are occurring. These areas are provided on the list of (See Affected Areas ).

4. One death attributed to Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China occurred in a case medically transferred from Viet Nam.

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[seeker41]

See the table I posted for numbers of recovered persons. Sorry to ping you so much.