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Diseases and vaccines - SARS/SARS vaccine

March 1-7, 2004

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February 23-29, 2004

►February 23, 2004 - SARS Forgotten But Not Gone - Wired News

►February 23, 2004 - Dutch virologist finds possible Sars medicine - Expatica News
 

February 16-22, 2004

►February 21, 2004 - Interferon can represses SARS in apes - The Japan Times

►February 17, 2004 - China uplifts independent anti-SARS vaccine R&D - Chinese scientists have reported significant improvement in vaccine research and development. A leading researcher cites the example of an anti-SARS vaccine, developed in just nine months, to explain what's behind the success of the independent work.  In the past, almost all vaccines manufactured in China modeled western countries' products. But the situation has changed greatly as far as an anti-SARS vaccine is concerned. Project Manager Yin Weidong says it's the first anti-SARS vaccine developed in China and first ever used in clinical tests in the world . - People's Daily

February 9-15, 2004

►February 11, 2004 - Rabies more deadly than SARS in China - UPI via http://interestalert.com

►February 8, 2004 - Science a passion for SARS-fighter - With last year's SARS outbreak and the battle against bird flu making headlines, Su Ih-jen, director-general of the Center for Disease Control (CDC), has been widely quoted as an expert on disease prevention. Su was appointed head of the center at the height of the SARS outbreak in May to help eradicate the disease. He spoke to `Taipei Times' reporter Joy Su about the battle against infectious diseases - Taipei Times

►February 2, 2004 - Immune Protein Might Fight SARS - Scientists say "good fortune" led to a promising therapy against the killer virus. - HealthDay via www.healthcentral.com

January 26 - February 8, 2004 (2 weeks combined due to illness)

►February 5, 2004 - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome? Sometimes It's Not Severe - Infectious Diseases Society of America via ScienceDaily

►February 3, 2004 - Researchers identify a SARS antibody - The Boston Globe 

►February 2, 2004 - Progress made towards Sars drug - Scientists in the US have taken a first step towards developing a specific drug to treat the Sars respiratory disease. - BBC News Online 

►January 25, 2004 - Winnipeg expert excited by findings of investigation of Chinese SARS cases - Canadian Press via www.canada.com - "Maybe CBS ought to contemplate yet another spinoff of its hugely popular CSI: Crime Scene Investigation franchise. They could call it CSI: Winnipeg...That's because Health Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg is the base for Dr. Heinz Feldmann, virologist and expert in the environmental sources of infectious disease transmission."

►January 26, 2004 - Health: WHO links SARS virus to animals - Daily Times, Pakistan

January 19-25, 2004

January 20, 2004 (broadcast date) - Shot in the arm: the chiropractic dispute over childhood vaccinations - CBC News - "Who hasn't heard the media message to get a flu shot?  After SARS, a lot of us are pretty scared of getting sick.  But not everyone.  Some people are more concerned about the risk of severe side effects from getting vaccinated...They're arguing that children should not be vaccinated for anything - not measles, whooping cough, diphtheria, not even polio."

►January 20, 2004 - 'Homeopathy can cure SARS'www1.mid-day.com - "As SARS cases reappear and reseachers work overtime to contain the virus, Indians doctors say the cure could lie in ancient 'nosode therapy' and homeopathy...According to a paper published in the Indian Journal of Clinical Physiology (IJCP), SARS can be effectively cured by using an ancient 'Nosode Therapy' which uses the patient's own pooled serum. It is a type of isotherapy which involves the preparation of medicine from the patient's own blood, after diluting it...Nosode therapy is an established therapy for treatment of most of the diseases in animals."

►January 20, 2004 - China to test human SARS vaccine - CNN

January 12-18, 2004

January 16, 2004 - Fresh SARS Cases in China Called Milder (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times

►January 15, 2004 - Hong Kong researchers say gene may make people susceptible to SARS - Canadian Press

January 14, 2004 - Bird flu could be worse than SARS - Aljazeera.net - "The bird flu spreading through Southeast Asia could turn out to be far more devastating than SARS if it links up with human influenza, an expert said on Wednesday...'The pandemics that occured in the previous century, the 20th century, were really devastating, especially the Spanish flu. We had that in 1918 and 40 million died of that. We should worry. It kills. It kills.'"

Comment:  Here we go.  And spreading fear about a pandemic sells.  It sells (flu vaccine).

►January 14, 2004 - SARS may not be alone - Antibodies to a SARS-like virus hint at repeated infections. - Nature - "A virus similar to that responsible for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) infected people in Hong Kong 18 months before SARS reared its head, a recent study says. But some experts say the result is tentative and needs to be confirmed by larger studies...The result suggests that the leap from animals to humans was not a one-off event, infectious-disease experts say...In most cases, these coronaviruses probably infect human cells only weakly, perhaps triggering a passing sniffle. Zheng believes that the SARS virus mutated in animals or humans so it can readily jump between people, generating the potentially fatal infection."

►January 13, 2004 - Train Passengers Tricked into Paying for Fake SARS Vaccine - Central News Agency via The Epoch Times - "A group of people posing as 'train station medical staff' recently had train passengers in the Guangzhou Train Station in China take 'SARS vaccination shots' that cost 150 yuan each [approximately 20 dollars]. The World Health Organization has not yet been able to develop a vaccine to prevent Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, and no such vaccine is known to exist. The Guangzhou disease prevention unit said that there will be severe repercussions for anyone who commits this type of crime."

►January 12, 2004 - China Hunts Source of SARS - 3rd Possible Case Reported as Officials Investigate Outbreak - Washington Post

January 5-11, 2004

January 6, 2004 - W.H.O. Urges China to Use Caution While Killing Civet Cats (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times - "The World Health Organization urged caution on Monday as provincial leaders in southern China rushed to kill thousands of civet cats as a preventive measure against SARS. Organization officials warned that such a large-scale slaughter, if done improperly, could pose serious hazards, including the possibility of more infections."

 

►January 6, 2004 - New SARS Case Confirmed - WHO Finding in China Raises Fears of Another Outbreak - Washington Post

►January 5, 2004 - Health Officials Warn of China's Plan to Kill Cats Over SARS (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times

December 29, 2003 - January 4, 2004

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