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SARS Epidemic May Reemerge, CDC Director Warns
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| 6-18-03
Posted on 06/18/2003 7:14:24 PM PDT by Prince Charles
SARS Epidemic May Reemerge, CDC Director Warns
Wed June 18, 2003 03:04 PM ET
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Like deadly flu epidemics of the past, SARS may reemerge later this year as a global health threat, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.
Dr. Julie Gerberding pointed out that infectious diseases like SARS and monkeypox are spread around the world by travelers or by trade in exotic animals.
"This is the new normal: emerging infectious diseases ... that create immediate global concerns because of the movement of people and animals," Gerberding said in a speech to the American Medical Association's annual meeting.
Gerberding compared SARS to flu epidemics early in the last century that appeared to subside, only to erupt again with the change of seasons and kill millions.
"The risk is not over as any moment another patient could emerge," she said.
The World Health Organization said this week the worst was over in the battle against SARS and lifted a travel warning for Taiwan, leaving Beijing as the only place with an advisory in force.
But the United Nations agency said health authorities must stay alert for fresh outbreaks of the disease that killed almost 800 people and infected about 8,500 since it emerged late last year in southern China.
Gerberding said the number of cases was "definitely dwindling" but the Northern Hemisphere's fall and winter could witness another outbreak.
"Our next priority is to develop a rapid diagnostic test," she said. "We now know there are milder forms of the illness where people may not have symptoms. What we don't know is if these people can transmit the virus."
The monkeypox outbreak in the U.S. Midwest this spring caught health authorities by surprise, she said, and showed how the movement of people and animals around the globe posed health risks. There have been roughly 80 non-fatal human cases so far traced to pet prairie dogs, with the infection traced to a Gambian rat imported from Africa.
She said no new human cases of the deadly West Nile virus appeared in the United States so far this spring, though the CDC was tracking bird and mosquito virus carriers and expected the deadly illness to reappear this summer. Last year, there were more than 4,000 human cases and 284 deaths.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americansars; canada; casedefinition; cdc; coronavirus; gerberding; heraldwave; heralwave; niman; sars; toronto; virus; who
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To: _Jim
Hi, Jimmy, how ya doing?
Maybe I could have called a wrong number.
Do you think such a busy cancer researcher-biochemist-surgery instructor-surgery instructor(bioengineering department)-virologist-owner of 2 SARS list servers-who works at Harvard-Massachusetts General-Shriners Hospital Boston,takes the time to call back hang ups?
On your calling me God,I dont believe in God.
As far as I can tell, SARS is unknowable, and untreatable.
At least as far as WHO and CDC say.
To: Betty Jo
Betty Jo, If SARS is a designer bug, a belief in God may be the only thing that saves you. This is all prophesied, you know.
To: _Jim
"Right now, he's playing 'target' for Madame Rosenburg's target practice."
Is he playing target or just catching her flies though? She's been very quiet lately.
To: _Jim; Wordsmith
Who is Michael Redvero? Perhaps I'm too young, LOL.
Hatfill is "involved". The question is: How? Stoolie, spook, fall guy, or victim?
To: Betty Jo
Do you think such a busy cancer researcher-biochemist-surgery instructor- surgery instructor(bioengineering department)-virologist-owner of 2 SARS list servers-who works at Harvard-Massachusetts General-Shriners Hospital Boston,takes the time to call back hang ups?You forgot webmaster of his home page (Ligand), a soccer page and Netcognizance. Then there is all the posting on Agonist, Freerepublic, and at least 4 other sites. And of course all the sending of articles to Promedmail...
Of course, there are also at least 10 email addresses to check two or three times a day.
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posted on
06/20/2003 6:35:31 PM PDT
by
TaxRelief
("Dr. Narcism, Can I have a moment of your time?" "NO!")
To: TaxRelief
fall guy ... right stooge in the right place at the right time ...
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posted on
06/20/2003 7:16:43 PM PDT
by
_Jim
To: TaxRelief
Who is [m]ichael [r]edvero?Firstly, please - use no caps when spelling his name ...
Secondly, I have taken to calling him 'redvero' as opposed to the correct 'rivero' (for reasons that should be apparent!) ...
Thirdly - He is a little skunk we ran off from this site when his anti-american agenda became clear after 9-11. This creep 'pushed' every conspiracy theory in the book with an unusally subtle slant (until 9-11 occured): an undertone of virulent anti-Americanism. Apparenly he feels he was short-changed by a number of people in life and now offers contract web services on smearing and spreading lies on the target of your choice ...
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06/20/2003 7:24:42 PM PDT
by
_Jim
To: Betty Jo
I dont believe in God.Never faced death or the possibility of death yet huh?
To whom will you cry out, to who will you address your supplication in your most dire hour of need?
Dirt?
HOW do you even know that what you can't see yet concern yourself with even exists? That has always baffled me about you 'atheists'. For 'atheists', some of you still use an awful lot of faith in your lives to do the simplest things ...
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06/20/2003 7:30:26 PM PDT
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_Jim
To: Betty Jo
As far as I can tell, SARS is unknowable, and untreatable. Betty Jo, meet the elctron: unknowable as well (EVER met one? ).
They are also capable of killing - more swiftly AND more unpredicatbly (on many ocasions) - moreso then any viral agent you or any country can 'cook up' too ...
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posted on
06/20/2003 7:34:26 PM PDT
by
_Jim
To: _Jim
elctron => electron
170
posted on
06/20/2003 7:34:56 PM PDT
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_Jim
To: _Jim
Hi _Jim,]
I've gained a whole new respect for you recently.
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posted on
06/20/2003 7:52:04 PM PDT
by
IYAAYAS
(Live free or die trying)
To: _Jim
Are you saying we should be more concerned about alpha...beta...and gamma...?
This is more dangerous than SARS?
Does Dr. Niman now?
To: TaxRelief
Nah,
Don't concern yourself with alpha, beta or gama. Special weapons have gained some sort of strange mystical property in peoples minds. If a 10KT device went off 50 miles from your house you wouldn't know it until you saw it on the news.
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06/20/2003 8:20:51 PM PDT
by
IYAAYAS
(Live free or die trying)
To: _Jim
You ask who will I cry out to?
How bout Dr.? or maybe,Nurse?
You are the one that brought up God.
To: IYAAYAS
Jim was talking about people being electrocuted BTW.
Try it if you want, stick a paper clip in the skinny end of a socket, it'll be a shocking experience. You'll be OK, everyone should experience this at least once.
note to self, martini's and FR don't mix.
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06/20/2003 8:47:19 PM PDT
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IYAAYAS
(Live free or die trying)
To: CobaltBlue; aristeides; TaxRelief; per loin; blam; Domestic Church; Judith Anne; CathyRyan
To: _Jim
"HOW do you even know that what you can't see yet concern yourself with even exists? That has always baffled me about you 'atheists'. For 'atheists', some of you still use an awful lot of faith in your lives to do the simplest things ..."
Maybe they'll believe in Dajjal.
To: TaxRelief
"This is more dangerous than SARS?" (Mushroom cloud pix)
In the hands of a maniacal tyrant in North Korea...yes!
To: Prince Charles; Betty Jo; CobaltBlue; jacquej; blam; aristeides; Shermy; Fred Mertz; ...
For what its worth, ussearch.com lists only one Henry Niman in the USA, with apparently two addresses...
1 HENRY NIMAN PITTSBURGH PA age54
2 HENRY NIMAN GLENSHAW PA age54
...he either has two addresess, or Glenshaw is a suburb of Pittsburgh, or he recently moved.
USSEARCH is usually pretty accurate at knowing something about virtually every american. They collect records from numerous public records like drivers licences, voters, real estate, etc...
To: Betty Jo
I don't suppose there are two Henry Nimans working for Ligand Pharmaceutical, so, yes, I suppose that must be him.
If you input Niman as inventor for US patents (which only show up in the database when published) he was working for Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation (La Jolla, CA) when his US patents were applied for. It appears that the application process began in 1983.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/search-bool.html If you input Niman and oncogene in PubMed, University of Pittsburgh turns up for the later work.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi So apparently he started in California and then moved to Pittsburgh and now is associated with Harvard. It looks like he did his early work while associated with the Scripps Research Institute Division of Molecular Biology.
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