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To: aristeides
lol, just found it, and thought it was new... must be wearing out the brain cells!

Well, how about this excerpt? Has it been posted? If so, I'll go watch TV, or something equally pointless...


Hong Kong Researchers Present New Clues on SARS

Sydney Chung, the dean of medicine at CUHK, says so-called "invisible SARS patients" pose the risk.

Such patients, says Dr. Chung, do not display typical SARS symptoms like fever and a dry cough. They are therefore not isolated and often admitted to the hospital for other conditions.

He also says asymptomatic SARS patients have recently infected hospital staff in non-SARS wards.

He says medical staff in SARS wards are continuing to be vigilant and that transmission in those wards is going down. At least four Hong Kong hospital workers have died of SARS while almost 400 have been infected.

Asymptomatic transmission of SARS has already been documented in Hong Kong. Scientists studying the Amoy Gardens high rise outbreak found that people living in the same household could catch SARS from each other even if they were not showing symptoms of disease.


http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=F04720B7-1B7D-4852-8BA3AA668E58B2FE
41 posted on 05/30/2003 4:08:43 PM PDT by jacquej
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To: jacquej
No harm in duplicating. People may have missed the story the first time.
43 posted on 05/30/2003 4:12:10 PM PDT by aristeides
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