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To: EternalHope
As far as I know Post #53 is correct, there are only "suspected" and "probable" cases in the US.

If you know of five "confirmed", I'd like to know where thiat information came from becaue it does not correspond with the latest information in my posession.
84 posted on 04/21/2003 8:59:10 PM PDT by John Valentine (Writing from downtown Seoul, keeping an eye on the hills to the north.)
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To: John Valentine
If you know of five "confirmed", I'd like to know where thiat information came from becaue it does not correspond with the latest information in my posession.

My source for the five confirmed SARS cases is the U.S. CDC report issued a couple of weeks ago confirming the presence of a new coronavirus in at least four of the five "confirmed" SARS cases they checked.

I do not recall if they ever found the SARS virus in the fifth case. However, one of the problems with SARS has been the difficulty making a positive diagnosis early in the course of the disease (it is difficult to find the virus until a couple of weeks after a person has full blown symptoms, but that is too late to be useful).

As I recall, the same material is available on the New England Journal of Medicine's web site, and it is easier to find. I have not checked the NEJM web site in a week, and they may have new info.

Those are the only "confirmed" SARS cases I have seen mentioned in print in the U.S. Why more information has not been forthcoming I do not know (I may have just missed something, however).

97 posted on 04/21/2003 9:36:39 PM PDT by EternalHope (Boycott everything French forever.)
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