SARS News

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - More than 3,100 people in 32 counties have reported being sickened with a gastrointestinal illness related to a state-run water playground, health officials said Thursday.2.1

Bird flu now poses a bigger and more worrying threat to people than SARS, medical experts in southern China, the region where severe acute respiratory syndrome first surfaced, said on Friday.2.7

When officials at the University of Texas Medical Branch announced plans to operate a secure ... Consider the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003.2.7

Singapore's best years are still ahead after the city-state had weathered crises such as the 2003 ... SARS, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, struck mainly East Asia in 2003, killing 33 people in Singapore out of more than 200 infected and dealing a severe blow to the city-state's economy.2.9

The government plans to more than triple the number of quarantine stations at airports throughout the country and hire scores of health officers as part of a plan to try to stop deadly infectious diseases from ...4

The government plans to more than triple the number of quarantine stations at airports around the ... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to build an additional seven stations as soon as it can get the money.4

An elderly Chinese bishop who was imprisoned for some 28 years and then kept under surveillance by the Chinese government for more than a decade has died, Vatican Radio reported Saturday.2.7

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday President Bush would be to blame if anything happened to him after an American evangelist said Washington should assassinate the leftist leader.4.3

Bird flu has killed three rare cat-like civets born in captivity at a national park in Vietnam, ... Scientists suspect that SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which killed nearly 800 people worldwide in 2003, was passed to humans from civets and other mongoose-like animals sold in live food markets in southern China.5.6

Officials from the UN, World Bank, governments and humanitarian groups launched talks on Thursday ... SARS has killed 774 people worldwide - mostly in Asia - since the disease was officially recognized in 2002.2.7

A provincial court judge has opened the door for lawsuits against Queen's Park. The move is expected to lead to a number of suits.2.7

A paper in the September issue of Nature Medicine reports that small interfering RNAs, short RNA sequences that can inhibit gene expression, are effective against infection with the severe acute respiratory ...2.7

Ontario nurses who contracted SARS during a 2003 outbreak in Toronto can proceed with lawsuit over claims the provincial government failed to protect them adequately, a judge ruled.3.1

A newly discovered virus could go a long way in explaining the causes of croup and other forms of children's cough.3.1

Few people retained the habit of eating game in Guangzhou, two years since Guangdong Province banned the sale of certain wild animals for cooking after the outbreak of SARS in 2003, the China Daily reported ...4

CEBU CITY , Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal, apparently alarmed by the rising cases of ... The last time the archdiocese called for prayers against a disease was a couple of years back when the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) scare hit the country.2.7

Cases of whooping cough, a highly contagious disease commonly thought to mainly infect children, have been reported in numbers four times higher than last year and the disease is being detected increasingly ...2.1

A talk on business recovery planning was delivered by Ms Chan Sik Mun from HSBC Singapore at a luncheon for the Britain Brunei Business Forum members.2.7

An executive briefing on Health for Aug 9, 2005, prepared by Asia Pulse , the real-time, ... SARS VACCINE APPROVED FOR HUMAN TRIALS IN CHINA BEIJING - A SARS vaccine developed by a Beijing-based inspection and quarantine body is now being tested in clinical trials.2.7

Director of Health Dr Lam Ping-yan says there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission in the ... Unlike SARS Noting the outbreak is different from SARS, Dr Lam said the Government will monitor the situation closely even though the chances of an outbreak in Hong Kong are slim.2.7

Airborne pathogens in healthcare facilities remain elusive , they can exist in ventilation systems, within the walls, even in the plumbing.2.1

Chinese authorities have banned local reporters from visiting areas where an outbreak of a pig-borne disease has killed 34 farmers, ordering newspapers to use dispatches from the state news agency, a Hong Kong ...2.7

Hongkong Land Holdings posted a narrow rise in first-half underlying profit on Tuesday, as the ... Because most of the firm's lease contracts are for two or three years, Hongkong Land is still suffering from a plunge in the property market during the 2003 outbreak of the SARS respiratory disease.2.7

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E-mail: Select one: Text Two reports sound the alarm on animal-borne diseases By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY Even as animal-borne diseases that can kill humans and wreak economic havoc pose increasing threats ...2.7

Following two years of "setback after setback" trying to adopt her first child -- including paperwork and a delay caused by the SARS outbreak -- Carla Breeding finally returned from Changsha, China, with her ...2.7

The World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health, however, have confirmed that Iwan Siswara Rifei, 37, and Thalita Nurul Azizah, 1, died of an unspecified bacterial infection, not the H5N1 bird flu ...2.7

Nadine Fownes is an editor and food columnist for The Chronicle Herald ... Discovery may lead to SARS therapy By SHERYL UBELACKER / The Canadian Press TORONTO - In a ...

The human coronavirus NL63 was first identified in the Netherlands, and its circulation in France has not been investigated.2.7

EDMONTON - Coughing and sneezing patients will now be asked to wear surgical masks in Edmonton emergency rooms, Capital Health announced Monday.2.9

A late Saturday afternoon announcement names Michael Yates new JPD Chief. Yates is slated to start his new role within a month.5.5

THE 10th South-East Asia Region health secretaries' meeting ended last week in the city ... Joint cooperation may be effective also to find ways to eradicate diseases like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and avian influenza.2