New Coronavirus Causes SARS Symptoms in Monkeys

Optional travel not advised by World Health Organization to Hong Kong and Guangdong, China, the origins of the SARS epidemic where the virus continues to infect and kill. Photograph © 2003 by AFP.
Optional travel not advised by World Health Organization to Hong Kong and Guangdong, China, the origins of the SARS epidemic where the virus continues to infect and kill. Photograph © 2003 by AFP.


April 16, 2003 Rotterdam, Netherlands - World Health Organization (W.H.O.) scientists have infected monkeys with the same new coronavirus suspected of causing the severe acute respiratory syndrome known as SARS. The primates developed the same disease symptoms experienced by human SARS patients. This is the same coronavirus that Canadian and Centers for Disease Control geneticists were finally able to gene sequence this past weekend. This particular genetic structure has not been seen before in the coronavirus family, but was extracted from some SARS patients.

 

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SARS Breakthrough – Genetic Sequencing of Coronavirus Linked to Killer Pneumonia

Health officials in China are seeing the SARS  virus infect people of all ages, and kill even the young and healthy. Photograph © 2003 by Associated Press.
Health officials in China are seeing the SARS virus infect people of all ages, and kill even the young and healthy. Photograph © 2003 by Associated Press.

April 14, 2003  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Today, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are reporting that the number of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome cases, known as SARS pneumonia, have risen around the world to 3169 and 144 deaths. This is an epidemic. Many doctors are wondering if it will become a global pandemic that can infect hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, of people over the next several months.

 

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Quarantined Doctor in Toronto Describes SARS Disease

Residents of Hong Kong where the SARS pneumonia virus has been spreading rapidly are wearing surgical masks as a precaution.  Photograph © 2003 by AFP.
Residents of Hong Kong where the SARS pneumonia virus has been spreading rapidly are wearing surgical masks as a precaution. Photograph © 2003 by AFP.

"I think we might find that SARS causes quite a massive immune response on the part of the human host ­ that the virus is able to trick the sick human host and have it over react. ...Maybe the way this SARS disease hurts the host is almost like the host turning on itself (in an auto-immune way)."

- Donald Low, M. D., Chief of Microbiology, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada

 

April 4, 2003 Evening Update:

STATEMENT BY TOMMY G. THOMPSON
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Regarding Executive Order on Quarantinable Diseases

"The President today signed an executive order adding SARS to the list of quarantinable communicable diseases under the Public Health Service Act. The president signed the order after he received a detailed briefing on SARS from myself, Dr. Julie Gerberding of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

 

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