- This is terrible news. What confuses me is the fact,
that here again, we have another medical profession hit with the virus.
We therefore must ask the question that no one wants to ask, "HOW
did she contract the virus?"
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- If we say that she contracted it from a patient, more
recently then January, we therefore conclude there are more cases and not
this ONE isolated case as China would have us believe. ....or, have there
been vaccine experimentation or vaccination of medical personnel thus leading
to this SARS case?
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- I believe that the nurse was probably part of a mass
vaccination program of medical personnel.
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- In any event, the CDC needs to develop a sudden case
of "HONESTY" and begin to prepare for SARS here in the US. I
don't believe that the US public will accept the situation that occurred
last year in the US.
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- I was hit with SARS last year, just about this time in
the Spring, and it is something I will NEVER forget.
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- Patricia Doyle
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- SARS - WORLDWIDE (16): CHINA, SUSPECTED CASES
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- A ProMED-mail post ProMED-mail is a program of the International
Society for Infectious Diseases http://www.isid.org
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- Source: World Health Organisation (WHO), CSR, Disease
Outbreak News, Thu 22 Apr 2004, [edited] http://www.who.int/csr/don/2004_04_22/en/
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- SARS: Suspected Case Reported In China
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- The Chinese Ministry of Health has today [Thu 22 Apr
2004] informed WHO of one suspected case of SARS. Investigation of the
case, including extensive laboratory testing and tracing and observation
of contacts, is under way.
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- The case is a 20 year old nurse who developed SARS-like
symptoms in Beijing on 5 Apr 2004 and was admitted to hospital on 7 Apr
2004. As her condition did not improve, she was transferred on 14 Apr 2004
to a second Beijing hospital, where she was placed in intensive care. Results
of initial blood tests, received today, indicate a likely infection with
the SARS coronavirus, but further testing is needed before a diagnosis
of SARS can be confirmed.
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- Contact tracing has identified 171 contacts, who have
been placed under observation. Of these, 5 have developed fever. If confirmed,
this will be the first case of SARS since January this year, when authorities
in Guangdong Province confirmed infection in a 35 year old businessman
and a 20 year old waitress. Following the end of the SARS outbreak, announced
by WHO on 5 Ju 2003, 5 SARS cases have been confirmed. Two occurred in
laboratory workers, in Singapore and Taiwan, China, and 3 in Guangdong
Province. The third Guangdong case, in a 32 year old television journalist,
was announced in December 2003. None of these 5 cases resulted in further
transmission of the virus.
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- China, which experienced the largest number of SARS cases
during the 2003 outbreak, has a well-developed system for the detection
and investigation of possible cases of SARS. Staff at the WHO office in
Beijing have considerable experience with SARS and are being kept closely
informed by the Ministry of Health.
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- From ProMED-mail Source: Xinhuanet News Agency Thu 22
Apr 2004 [edited]
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- Beijing Reports One SARS Suspect Case
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- BEIJING -- China's Ministry of Health (MOH) spokesman
said here on Thu 22 Apr 2004 that one suspected severe acute respiratory
syndrome (SARS) case was reported in Beijing. The patient, now hospitalized
in isolation in Beijing's Ditan Hospital, has received 2 examinations by
a medical expert team of the Ministry of Health (MOH). The patient, a 20
year old female, was a nurse in Beijing's Jiangong Hospital, the spokesman
said.
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- Beijing has geared up the early warning system for SARS,
organized an epidemiological investigation and disinfected the living and
working places of the patient. Some 171 people who had close contact with
the patient have received medical observation and 5 who developed fever
have been isolated for further observation.
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- The MOH has reported the case to the World Health Organisation,and
informed Hong Kong and Macao health authorities about the matter. The patient
reported symptoms of fever, cough and shivering on 5 Apr 2004 and was hospitalized
in Jiangong Hospital on 7 Apr 2004. She was transferred to the Intensive
Care Unit of the Renmin Hospital attached to the Beijing University on
14 Apr 2004. On 19 Apr 2004, 2 relatives who accompanied the patient in
hospital reported fever so the hospital immediately geared up the early
warning system for SARS. A medical examination at the hospital showed that
the patient was IgG positive on Wed 21 Apr 2004. In the morning of Thu
22 Apr 2004, an examination by the Beijing Center for Disease Prevention
and Control (CDC) showed the patient was IgG and IgM positive, both strong
evidence of a suspect SARS case. In accordance with the program on SARS
prevention for medical systems nationwide, the Beijing Health Bureau then
reported the case to MOH on 22 Apr 2004.
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- China's national CDC tested the patient and also obtained
the result of IgG and IgM positive. The MOH expert team then determined
the patient a suspect SARS case. The MOH has instructed health departments
nationwide to enhance surveillance and carry out supervision on influenza
and pneumonia for early discovery, reporting, isolation and treatment of
SARS.
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- http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-04/22/content_1435442.htm
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- From ProMED-mail Source: Associated Press report, Thu
22 Apr 2004 [edited]
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- Second Suspected Case Of SARS Reported In Anhui
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- BEIJING -- The Chinese Ministry of Health on Thu 22 Apr
2004 reported a second suspected case of severe acute respiratory syndrome,
or SARS. The Ministry said 2 people are suspected of having contracted
SARS -- one in Beijing and one in the eastern province of Anhui -- the
first cases in those areas since the country's initial outbreak of the
highly contagious disease subsided last summer.
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- The patient in Beijing, a 20 year old nurse, has been
quarantined in a hospital and examined by experts from the Ministry of
Health, the government's Xinhua News Agency said. She reported suffering
fever, cough and trembling on 5 Apr 2004 and was hospitalized two days
later, but was only confirmed as a suspected SARS case on Thu 22 Apr 2004,
it said. Five other people who had contact with her have also reported
fevers and were isolated in a hospital, Xinhua said. Doctors are keeping
an eye on 171 other people who also had contact with her, to make sure
they don't have symptoms, it said.
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- Another suspected SARS case was reported in Anhui, said
the Governnment in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong. Hong Kong's authorities
said the Health Ministry notified them of two cases - one in Beijing and
one in Anhui - and it was unclear why the Xinhua report only mentioned
the Beijing case.
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- -- ProMED-mail Patricia A. Doyle, PhD Please visit my
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