Hong Kong Study Finds SARS Patients Still Feeling Effects
November 21, 2004
Text of report by Radio TV Hong Kong audio web site on 21 November
A study of 100 former SARS [severe acute respiratory syndrome] patients has found that a fifth of them have weaker lungs a year after recovering from the disease. The Chinese University Department of Medicine said this was a higher figure than had been detected six months ago. Doctors believe that scarring or dead lung tissue has reduced the lungs’ ability to transfer oxygen, but the condition is not expected to deteriorate further.