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[Gaziz]

Заразная пневмония стала причниной смерти 3 человек.


Someone has forwarded this to me ...

Here's the new list of infection locations:


Ruby's Restaurant (at McCowan & Finch)


Take One Karaoke ( Woodbine &14) both infected with SARS


2 storekeepers at Pacific mall


1 from First Markham Place


Waitress 168 bubble tea at Commerance Gate


finch and midland office building


scar. grace hosipital dr. chow


thats the new list, stay away from densed areas with chinese

[Черепаха]

Заразная пневмония стала причниной смерти 3 человек.


Someone has forwarded this to me ...

Here's the new list of infection locations:


Ruby's Restaurant (at McCowan & Finch)


Take One Karaoke ( Woodbine &14) both infected with SARS


2 storekeepers at Pacific mall


1 from First Markham Place


Waitress 168 bubble tea at Commerance Gate


finch and midland office building


scar. grace hosipital dr. chow


thats the new list, stay away from densed areas with chinese

А разве эта штука передаётся воздушно-капельным путём ?

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Mystery ailment feared in 14 health workers


By CAROLYN ABRAHAM
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail


Fourteen health-care workers remained under close watch in Toronto last night with doctors fearing they have contracted from sick patients the strange pneumonia spreading around the globe.

Most are nurses from the Scarborough Grace Hospital and were admitted to negative air-pressure rooms at the West Park Health Centre - a former tuberculosis sanatorium. They are suffering fevers and other flu-like symptoms associated with SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, the Ontario Nurses Association confirmed.

The nurses were working the week of March 7, said ONA president Barb Wahl, and may have been exposed to 44-year-old Chi Kwai Tse, a patient who died of SARS March 13. An elderly man who shared a room with this patient for one night died Friday.

"Our members are fearful, there's no question. Nurses are the front line, they put the needs of others ahead of themselves," Ms. Wahl said. "I'm holding my breath and praying that no one else has been exposed."

This suspected cluster of new SARS patients raises fears that the caseload, at least in the Toronto area, could continue to climb while, internationally, confusion reigns as to the cause of the illness. There are already 15 suspected SARS cases in Ontario, excluding the health-care workers, and two cases have been reported in Western Canada.

SARS is known to have an incubation period of up to 10 days and Ms. Wahl noted there is now concern among family and friends of Scarborough nursing staff and among other hospital patients.

Colin D'Cunha, Ontario's chief commissioner of public health, said in a release yesterday that anyone with symptoms or concerns who visited the hospital between March 8 and March 24 should contact the Toronto Public Health Hotline (416-338-7600).

"The cases we are monitoring now are the result of unprotected contact with initial cases before we were aware of SARS," Dr. D'Cunha said.

Meanwhile, officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said yesterday that a vicious new strain of the common-cold virus seems to be behind the baffling pneumonia outbreak - and it is not the one Canadian scientists identified last week.

As a result, there are now two different theories about the identity of the mystery pathogen playing out in North America, Asia and Europe. It has killed at least 17 people and sickened 456 worldwide to date.

CDC officials said they have strong evidence that a coronavirus is the possible cause of SARS, which jibes with findings from the University of Hong Kong.

Coronaviruses - named for their crown-like appearance under a microscope - are among the leading causes of the common cold and only in animals are they known to produce more severe disease.

"This may very well be a new or emerging coronavirus," CDC director Julie Gerberding said, basing her assessment on early genetic studies of the virus.

But Canadian scientists said last Friday that they - like experts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a European lab - suspect the culprit is a paramyxovirus. They have specifically pinpointed the human metapneumovirus, or hMPV, as the prime candidate from this family.

The hMPV, which was first identified in 2001, has only been known to cause mild respiratory ailments and Canadian health officials are investigating whether it has mutated to become more virulent.

Frank Plummer, scientific director of the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, called the findings confusing and said, "Both are very interesting stories, and I don't know which one will turn out to be the actual cause . . . It may be possible that more than one thing is causing this."

Tests on Canadian samples have so far not turned up a coronavirus, he said, but more samples had tested positive for the paramyxovirus hMPV. Meanwhile, in the United States, Dr. Gerberding said the CDC had found no evidence of paramyxovirus even though they had tested for it rigorously.

But, she noted, "We are very respectful of the findings from the other laboratories that we are collaborating with . . . we are keeping an open mind."

CDC officials said they were able to grow the coronavirus in lab culture dishes, pick up their images under the electron microscope, pinpoint genetic evidence and identify the fact that patients developed antibodies to a coronavirus over the course of their illness with SARS.

As with the common cold, there is no specific treatment for a coronavirus, but the U.S. Defence Department is searching for a worthwhile drug, she said.