Recovered SARS Patient Continues to Shed Virus in Stool --------------------------------------------------- An issue that has not been discussed anywhere in ProMED-mail in detail (perhaps because little is known about it) is that of continual viral shedding by clinically recovered SARS patients. A colleague of mine in Singapore, who has had the SARS illness and was diagnosed with the SARS coronavirus by RT-PCR culture and electron microscopy, has informed me that SARS coronavirus RNA has continued to be detected in stool samples by RT-PCR, although it has not yet been successfully grown in culture. This continued for sometime after the quarantine period of 10-14 [days?] after recovery from illness (up to 3 weeks post-recovery). If such is the case for most -- or even some -- of the recovered SARS patients, perhaps this may account for the ongoing transmission we are seeing in places like Singapore in household and workplace contacts of clinically recovered SARS patients. Perhaps the laboratories of the WHO collaborating network should ask for convalescent stool samples as well as sera to monitor and characterise this phenomenon.
"Billions will die from this mighty retribution. Kneel down and repent, sinners, for the hour of judgement is at hand. He shall come from a sweaty, unhygenic place, and know that his name be SARS!"
"This MUST be a bioweapon created by the NWO, and spread by black helicopters, to help cause a panic that will let the government start the gun grabs. I'll be in my Y2K shelter if you need me."
"Dude, it'll be just like, you know, The Stand. Won't that be freaky?!?All that death and stuff? I should buy a white mask and gloves, like, you know Micheal Jackson. Who knew he was right all this time, about the germs, and stuff?" </The Stand>