aaron
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 Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 1:48 pm Post subject: SARS update |
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With no "superspreader" in sight, no one wearing masks and diagnoses of suspected SARS cases still in limbo, doctors are questioning whether the bug that wreaked global havoc last year may have lost its bite.
A leading SARS expert at the University of Hong Kong claims the present strain of SARS is not a descendant of last year's virus, which infected 8,000 people in about 30 countries, and appeared less contagious.
The SARS scare was overshadowed this week as Asia faced a new health threat in bird flu, with WHO confirming that the disease had killed three people in Vietnam.
The suspected SARS cases, a waitress, 20, and an investor, 35, if confirmed, would be just the second and third cases in China since the WHO declared an end to last year's outbreak in July.
Aaron
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