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NEW SARS OUTBREAK HITS
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| 5-26-03
Posted on 05/26/2003 5:27:33 PM PDT by Prince Charles
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To: Prince Charles
Can the SARS virus be spread by mosquitoes?
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posted on
05/26/2003 5:34:09 PM PDT
by
Grig
To: Grig
I'm not aware of any information that mosquitoes can spread SARS.
To: Prince Charles
Do you know if "anyone" is testing "any" species of animals in Canada that could have been exposed?
To: Free Trapper
Unknown.... I've not seen any stories on animal testing in Canada, but that's not to say it isn't taking place.
To: aristeides; blam; riri; Judith Anne; per loin; Dog Gone; All
Ping.
To: Prince Charles
Between the belated reporting of the mad cow case and the new SARS reports it looks like the credibility of the Canadian health and argiculture organizations is taking a big hit.
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posted on
05/26/2003 5:55:02 PM PDT
by
Milwaukee_Guy
(Having France in NATO, is like taking an accordion deer hunting.......)
To: Prince Charles
Someone should check into this quick then. It seems a hardy virus so it might be possible, and they aren't sure how it spread from one patient in that hospital to another one 3 floors away.
If it can be spread by mosquitoes then things are going to get REAL bad all over.
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posted on
05/26/2003 5:56:44 PM PDT
by
Grig
To: Free Trapper
Yes, I believe the, non-chimpanzee type human, Homo Sapien Sapien has been tested and is confirmed to both carry and transmit the virus.
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posted on
05/26/2003 5:58:06 PM PDT
by
Logical Extinction
(Reality is often much more frightening than fiction...)
To: Prince Charles
Thank God we have a neighbor to the north with socialized medicine to keep the disease under control. </sarcasm way off, cough, cough
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posted on
05/26/2003 5:59:38 PM PDT
by
Beck_isright
(When Senator Byrd landed on an aircraft carrier, the blacks were forced below shoveling coal...)
To: Milwaukee_Guy
Certainly so. It appears that economic reasoning prevailed over sound medical judgment in the lifting of the Toronto travel alert.
To: Grig
Can the SARS virus be spread by mosquitoes?Cannot say that I have heard that angle. But, it is becomming pretty clear that the so called experts out there have not a clue about this virus.
To: Grig
West Nile virus being spread by mosquitoes is bad enough... but SARS? Now that would be real bad.
To: Grig; Judith Anne; Mother Abigail; CathyRyan; per loin; Dog Gone; Petronski; InShanghai; Ma Li; ...
No mosquitoes here in D.C. yet this season that I've observed. I doubt if they have them in Toronto yet either. And I'm aware of no evidence suggesting this disease is spread by mosquito.
A much more likely candidate for the vehicle of spread would be hospital laundry. Remember how many people that hospital laundry worker on Taiwan exposed.
To: Prince Charles
It appears that economic reasoning prevailed over sound medical judgment in the lifting of the Toronto travel alert. Absolutely ... further, I'm sure Torontonians are mortified by the fact they are being singled out as a hot bed of SARS ... again!
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posted on
05/26/2003 6:05:50 PM PDT
by
BluH2o
To: Prince Charles
A comparison of the SARS virus spike protein to other coronavirus spike proteins shows an abrupt [break] in homology at position 1200. The preceding 8 amino acids (KWPWYVWL) are well conserved (possibly invariant) in coronaviruses.
However, there is still significant homology among all classes of coronaviruses beyond position 1200, except for the SARS coronaviruses. Thus, it seems that there [may have been] a frame shift mutation that changed the carboxyl portion of the SARS spike protein, so it no longer has homology to any known coronavirus.
If this is the site of the 29-nucleotide deletion, then it seems highly unlikely that the civet cat coronavirus was due to human infection of civets or any other animal (as no SARS coronavirus has been detected with a
29-nucleotide insertion which would restore homology to the carboxyl portion of the spike protein).
--
Henry L Niman, PhD
Instructor in Surgery (Bioengineering)
Harvard Medical School
It appears that the animal/man or man/animal link has now been solved.
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posted on
05/26/2003 6:07:53 PM PDT
by
Logical Extinction
(Reality is often much more frightening than fiction...)
To: Logical Extinction
LOL,thanks.
To: Logical Extinction
Yep, I just read that report on ProMed a half hour ago. Humans contracted it from the civet cats, not the other way around. And there are probably other animals out there that harbor this dread disease: we know that cats can get SARS, but they're apparently not prone to the full-blown ARDS reaction seen in about 25% of humans.
To: aristeides
Unfortunately the mosquito season is underway here in Chicago... and I found a dead bird on the lawn the other day (a tell-tale sign of WNV).
To: Logical Extinction; Prince Charles
If I understand that correctly, it means that the human SARS coronavirus is derived from the civet coronavirus, not vice versa. However, I don't think it tells us how the one developed into the other, whether by infection and mutation, or by bioengineering.
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