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BEIJING (Reuters) - China and the United States are cooperating on efforts to understand deadly bird flu, a major shift from Beijing's handling of SARS, U.S. National Institutes of Health director Elias Zerhouni said on Tuesday. "There is a definite willingness to be completely cooperative, be completely transparent and to exchange samples with the WHO and with other partners so we can track the genetic changes," he told a news conference in Beijing. "I think it is remarkable as...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China and the United States are cooperating on efforts to understand deadly bird flu, a major shift from Beijing's handling of SARS, U.S. National Institutes of Health director Elias Zerhouni said on Tuesday."There is a definite willingness to be completely cooperative, be completely transparent and to exchange samples with the WHO and with other partners so we can track the genetic changes," he told a news conference in Beijing."I think it is remarkable as...
By Richard DobsonTAIPEI -- Customers at Huang Wen-liang's organic restaurant in Taipei fall into three categories: people committed to living healthy, those who fear dying and the curious.Like most organic outlets across east Asia, Huang's business is doing well."As people's wealth increases, so does their standard of living, and people with money become more concerned about their mortality and start paying attention to their health," said 50-year-old Huang, who has eaten organic...
By Maggie FoxWASHINGTON (Reuters) - New regulations aimed at making it easier for countries to share information about disease outbreaks will help fight avian influenza, a senior World Health Organization official said on Monday.The new regulations, along with the experience in controlling severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), should ease the way for cooperation should there be an influenza pandemic, said Dr. David Heymann, executive director for communicable diseases at WHO."SARS...
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science CorrespondentWASHINGTON -- New regulations aimed at making it easier for countries to share information about disease outbreaks will help fight avian influenza, a senior World Health Organization official said on Monday.The new regulations, along with the experience in controlling Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), should ease the way for cooperation should there be an influenza pandemic, said Dr. David Heymann, executive director for communicable...
By Susan Fenton HONG KONG (Reuters) - The spread of bird flu in Asia does not appear to be putting off tourists but local officials are nervous, fearing a repeat of the SARS outbreak two years ago, which made parts of the region no-go areas. The H5N1 strain of avian flu has killed 69 people in Asia since late 2003 and several countries in the region regularly report more suspected cases in people and outbreaks in poultry. Thailand, which has reported 13 deaths from avian flu and where...
By Susan FentonHONG KONG -- The spread of bird flu in Asia does not appear to be putting off tourists but local officials are nervous, fearing a repeat of the SARS outbreak two years ago, which made parts of the region no-go areas.The H5N1 strain of avian flu has killed 69 people in Asia since late 2003 and several countries in the region regularly report more suspected cases in people and outbreaks in poultry.Thailand, which has reported 13 deaths from avian flu and where tourism accounts...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Two years ago, as fears of a SARS pandemic spread, a San Diego biotech company aided by federal dollars speeded a promising vaccine out of the lab and into human testing.But when Vical Inc. (VICL) and the government wrap up the 15-person test next year, the drug is expected to end up on the shelf because the dreaded global epidemic never panned out. Bird flu has now overtaken SARS as the No. 1 feared global death threat.As biotechnology companies suddenly refocus their profit...
CHICAGO -- The lungs of avian flu victims are racked by infections, clogged with pus and surrounded by fluid, and the severity of the symptoms can predict whether the patients will survive, researchers said on Friday.Based on chest X-rays performed on 14 Vietnamese bird flu patients admitted to Ho Chi Minh City Hospital -- nine of whom died -- researchers at the University of Oxford in England found shared abnormalities that were good predictors of whether the disease would be fatal.The...
By Tan Ee Lyn HONG KONG (Reuters) - Joey Lee began suffering severe mood swings, depression and would sob every day for no apparent reason soon after she survived a SARS infection while working as a nurse in a public hospital in Hong Kong in 2003. Lee and her 8-year-old son, who was not infected, have been seeing a psychologist since. "He would cry all the time and at night, he is terrified that my husband and I will die," she said. Lee and her friends who are coping with the after...
Latest Severe acute respiratory syndrome Reference Libraries
The masked palm civet (Paguma larvata), also known as the gem-faced civet, can be found in Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. Its range includes China and the islands of Sumatra, Borneo, Taiwan, and the island chains of Nicobar and Andaman. It does occur in Japan, but experts do not know if it is native or introduced in that area of its range. It prefers a habitat within temperate deciduous forests and tropical rainforests. The masked palm civet resembles most other civets in body...
The SARS coronavirus is the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). In 2003 the World Health Organization issued a press release stating that the coronavirus identified by a number of laboratories was the official cause of SARS. It causes severe illness marked initially by systemic symptoms of muscle pain, headache, fever, followed in 2-10 days by the onset of respiratory symptoms, mainly cough, dyspnea, and pneumonia. SARS patients have a decrease in the number of...
