maplesyrup Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 Did we learn anything last time? What are we going to do differently this time if SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is confirmed? SARS has been picked as Canada's number one news story of the year for 2003 by editors and broadcasters. The World Health Organization should know in the next few days if we have another outbreak of SARS on our hands http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2003/s1019335.htm 'The World Health Organisation has now sent a team of disease control experts to Guangdong Province, while its international network of labs tries to confirm whether the man has SARS or not.' 'It may be a false alarm, but it was this time last year that authorities say the first cases of SARS probably emerged from that same area of China, before the disease crossed into Hong Kong and spread around the world, infecting about 8,000 people and killing more than 700.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maplesyrup Posted January 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2004 (edited) 'China And WHO Confirm SARS Case In Guangdong Province' http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/...40105073937.htm ----------------------------------------------------- Dr John Blatherwick (BC) Canada health officials say precautions will prevent SARS from re-occuring in Canada. Canada is tremendously well prepared this time, because we have learned from our last experience. The good thing is that China is moving quickly to isolate, taking encouraging steps. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Risks Seen in China's Plan to Slaughter Cats to Fight SARS' By JIM YARDLEY http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/05/internat...ND-SARS.html?hp 'We do believe the system in Guangdong is working," the W.H.O. representative in Beijing, Henk Bekedam, said. Nonetheless, the reassurances came at the end of a day when concerns about another outbreak of SARS rose across Asia. Health officials in the Philippines quarantined a woman who had developed a fever after a flight from Hong Kong. Her husband was also quarantined with a fever, though it could take several days to determine if the couple was infected with SARS. There were also reports in Guangzhou, the provincial capital of Guangdong, that a woman who worked in a wild game market had been hospitalized with symptoms consistent with SARS. A Guangdong health official told the official state media that such reports were "baseless," but confirmed that a worker was hospitalized with a fever related to pneumonia.' -------------------------------------------------- The person with SARS says he has only had contact with a rat. Cat lovers are going to be upset about this one. Edited January 5, 2004 by maplesyrup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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