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SARS Sarossa

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DateSubjectAuthorDiscuss
13/5/2003
15:27
freeme
Isn't it time you did a copy paste on your long posting again?

crystalclear
12/5/2003
23:03
Coverup? Is SARS Already
Rampant In California?
5-11-3

Dear Editor:

I am a health care worker working in a North Bay Area hospital. Since as early as March, on my documented patient rosters, we have been seeing a continual pattern of strange "atypical" pneumonia patients.

The pattern is as follows:

Sudden shortness of breath, fever documented in charts as 100.4 to 102.2, ARDS, pleural effusions, cardiac effusions, diarrhea for 3 days to 2 weeks, pneumonia all with a grainy or nodule pattern on X rays, respiratory failure leading more and more to death after ventilator support. At first the patients presented with a viral pneumonia presentation, then they went to a bacterial pneumonia presentation, then they went into kidney and liver failures, then unknown septicemia patterns, and mortality increasing. We started out with compromised patients with underlying disease, especially COPD or heart problems, cancer history or chronic fatigue syndrome history or HIV as early fatalities in March. There is a strong pattern of repeat pneumonia patients worsening and readmitted from hospitalizations in January.

Then younger and younger patients with less compromise started getting the same patterns. We had a patient in the teens and one in their in 20's. Other health care workers, working in a children's ICU close by, report the same patterns and that they have lost many children to this pattern. How many deaths? We have lost up to 20 people on one shift in one month who have died with this pattern. As staff members we don't know how many total have died or who is keeping track of our mortality rates. The state licensing agencies have been notified as well as public health by concerned staff members filing complaints that their patient mortality rate is increasing with the same patterns. Infection control and isolation procedures have been incredibly lax as well as proper equipment in working with isolation patients, such as proper N95 masks not available or shoe covers for many isolation R/O SARS. Many of the patients who died were not even in contact isolations.

Our staff has reported increasing, unexplained fatigue and diarrhea after working with these "atypical" pneumonia patients. Stewards attempting to get staff screened for symptoms or nasal swabs for viral infection have been ignored and disciplined attempted for questioning infection control policy or alerting staff to new infectious control SARS-LIKE patterns. We as several staff believe their is a cover up on an infectious disease with SARS-LIKE symptoms and that the staff members are being put at risk without proper inservice or protections to themselves. We don't know if this is ignorance, dysfunctional health care system problems, worries about corporate liability, or if we being used as experiments to see how this pattern spreads. None of us have agreed to be experiments or are being compensated as such. The hospital where this pattern has been a problem is in the Napa, Solono County, California. I am reporting this pattern in the interest of public safety without using or disclosing names of patients or staff or the specific hospital involved. We. as staff, are gagged from public disclosures of problems by corporate compliance papers that we have signed in the last six weeks that threaten a $10,000 fine, termination, or 6 months in jail for disclosing health care information. The policy is so tight that we can not even give a safe report to each other under their guidelines if we followed them strictly.

We do not believe, as staff , that this policy was designed or is functional for patient care, but was designed to protect the physicians and the hospital from mismanagement or liability issues without regard to public safety. Our hospital has continually refused to report it's suspect SARS patients to public health or accurately disclose it's numbers of SARS case under investigation, and do so only when forced to do so, by staff reporting to public health the numbers are not matching what they are seeing and working with. Many of our health we are concerned that a potential infectious disease contagious spread to the prison facilities would result in a horror of deaths to the prisoners. The California prison conditions are severely over crowded and have sanitation problems and many of the prisoners are already compromised with lowered immune systems now.

Astraea Kelly
Respiratory Therapist


Comment

From Victor Fletcher
5-12-3

Dear Jeff -

This California fever at 100.4 is the same as previous reports of mild SARS fever at 100.5.

This is similar to what I told you about happening to hundreds of thousands of people in the Toronto area; what I called pre-SARS -- this thing takes many forms, some not so serious, others being fatal as we know.

We had hacking coughs for two months, sometimes dry coughs, sometimes not; mild fever, aches and pains that moved around the body; for myself -- I had what I called "glue in the brain" when I had to stop work at the keyboard and go and crash for what I thought would be a short nap -- but the nap would turn into hours of sleep.

-- Victor

Toronto Street News

a.fewbob
12/5/2003
10:55
Reckitt Benckiser RB.L

They can't produce enough Dettol to satisfy demand.

onlyme
11/5/2003
23:45
Should I get a CHINESE TAKE AWAY ??

Please help !!

hv
11/5/2003
23:23
Should I get a Chinese Take away ?
hv
11/5/2003
23:23
Should I get a Chinese Take away ?
hv
11/5/2003
23:13
chhh-tt-pooo

Spitting phonetically ... tricky.

goodgrief
11/5/2003
23:01
1,000 sanitary workers are to patrol the city of Guangzhou, in the Guangdon province, to enforce a ban on people SPITTING and possibly spreading the SARS virus.


It's a filthy habit and one which many residents here in the UK are guilty of.

chocolat
11/5/2003
23:00
1,000 sanitary workers are to patrol the city of Guangzhou, in the Guangdon province, to enforce a ban on people SPITTING and possibly spreading the SARS virus.


It's a filthy habit and one which many residents here are guilty of.

chocolat
11/5/2003
00:10
Fact ... the SARS virus was SO stable that it did not mutate ... no not into humans ... so stable I say ... slow mutation or no mutation that is the question. Still as with all children they LIVE and learn.
freeenterprize
11/5/2003
00:04
And you thought SARS was bad ... hello son (or daughter) of sars ... not so nice to meet you!
freeenterprize
09/5/2003
17:23
BBC.co.uk
Last Updated: Friday, 9 May, 2003, 16:07 GMT 17:07 UK

UK firm wins Sars contract

Workers from a Hampshire firm are to be sent out to Singapore to protect hospitals against the Sars virus.

Bioquell has won a contract with Asia's largest private healthcare firm to "bio-decontaminate" two of its hospitals.

With 27 dead, Singapore has the third-highest Sars death toll.

But bosses at the Andover company say their employees will be working in Sars-free hospitals and that they will take "preventative measures".

The contract, thought to be worth up to £250,000, will see the workers use a special sterilisation system in the Gleneagles and Mount Elizabeth hospitals.

Protective clothing

A company spokeswoman told BBC News Online: "For the two hospitals covered in the contract they are sending out three people.

"They have to send their own people because there is a lot of software and technology involved in the system.

"The two hospitals they are going to be working in will be Sars-free.

"They would not be in contact with anybody with Sars. They will just be in an empty room so the risks will be relatively low."

She added they would be liaising closely with the authorities over the day-to-day risks.

The workers will be wearing protective clothing during the job and, if further contracts are won, will only be sent into contaminated hospitals after necessary precautions are taken.

The sterilisation system, which weighs just 25kg, kills bacteria and viruses in hospital wards by spraying hydrogen peroxide vapour which is then catalytically converted into water and oxygen.

Health officials in Singapore said on Wednesday that they needed 10 more days to declare the epidemic under control

Parkway's managing director, Dr Lim Cheok Peng, said: "Parkway's hospitals are Sars-free.

"However, putting in place this technology ensures that a proactive, preventative and robust approach is taken to infection control in all our hospitals."

a harris
09/5/2003
05:19
PARIS (AFX) - The most complete genetic study to date of the SARS virus has
revealed an agent that appears to undergo almost negligible mutation, Agence
France-Presse reported, citing research published online by the British medical
weekly The Lancet.
It said scientists in Singapore compared the genetic ID of samples of Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus, taken in throat swabs from local
patients, with the genome of samples found in other countries.
The most important areas of the genomes were identical, something that is
remarkable in so-called RNA viruses, which includes SARS and other members of
the coronavirus family.
Usually, RNA viruses mutate very quickly, changing a letter or so in their
genetic code every time they replicate. This evolution is part of the virus'
drive to survive, perhaps finding ways of evading the defence mechanisms of its
host or of transferring to a new and more profitable host.
The research was carried out by a team led by Edison Liu from Singapore's
Genome Institute.
They sequenced the genetic code of a SARS virus taken from one of the first
known carriers of the disease, and of SARS viruses found in four people in
Singapore who had had direct or secondary contact with that individual.
These sequences were compared with virus isolates from Canada, Hanoi and
Hong Kong and from Guangzhou and Beijing in China.
The 14 sequences contained small signatures that pointed to where they
originated - something that could be a useful epidemiological tool -- but there
was no major variant in their genetic machinery.
In a commentary also published by The Lancet, molecular biologists Earl
Brown and Jason Tetro from the University of Ottawa, Canada, said that Liu's
evidence pointed to "a remarkable genetic conservation" of the virus since the
outbreak was first documented in February.
"This finding may be a double-edged sword," they warned.
It shows that the virus is well adapted to lodging in the human host -- in
other words, there is the risk that it is here to stay.
The virus is not under significant threat from the immune system and so has
no need to mutate to a different form, hopefully a more benign one. Mutation
such as this is what causes flu epidemics to die out.
On the other hand, the SARS virus' relative stability should make it easier
to target it with a vaccine, they said.
Viruses that mutate quickly -- cold, flu and to a lesser degree HIV are
among them - are in effect a moving target, because vaccines work by teaching
antibodies and killer blood cells the face of a familiar enemy.
"It's both good and bad news," Brown told AFP in a phone interview.
"The bad news is that we may get more of the same. The good news is that at
least we think we have a clear target and with time, we may be able to have a
vaccine."
Brown added a caveat.
Vaccines to combat animal versions of the coronavirus have had only limited
success.
"We're not sure why this is. It could be that the virus changes shape in
response to the vaccine and ducks the immune system."
Brown said SARS' genetic stability placed it in a new class from the two
other classes of coronavirus.
"There are now three types of corona. This is a new flavour," he said.
The SARS genome was sequenced earlier this month by two teams of Canadian
scientists.
The latest study helps to answer one of the most urgent questions about the
virus.
Still to come, though, are answers to other big unknowns: exactly how the
virus is transmitted; why some people are more vulnerable or more infectious
than others; and, of course, where are the weak points in the virus which can be
exploited by drugs and vaccines.
ri/gk/rc

waldron
09/5/2003
05:16
PARIS (AFX) - The most complete genetic study to date of the SARS virus has
revealed an agent that appears to undergo almost negligible mutation, Agence
France-Presse reported, citing research published online by the British medical
weekly The Lancet.
It said scientists in Singapore compared the genetic ID of samples of Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus, taken in throat swabs from local
patients, with the genome of samples found in other countries.
The most important areas of the genomes were identical, something that is
remarkable in so-called RNA viruses, which includes SARS and other members of
the coronavirus family.
Usually, RNA viruses mutate very quickly, changing a letter or so in their
genetic code every time they replicate. This evolution is part of the virus'
drive to survive, perhaps finding ways of evading the defence mechanisms of its
host or of transferring to a new and more profitable host.
The research was carried out by a team led by Edison Liu from Singapore's
Genome Institute.
They sequenced the genetic code of a SARS virus taken from one of the first
known carriers of the disease, and of SARS viruses found in four people in
Singapore who had had direct or secondary contact with that individual.
These sequences were compared with virus isolates from Canada, Hanoi and
Hong Kong and from Guangzhou and Beijing in China.
The 14 sequences contained small signatures that pointed to where they
originated - something that could be a useful epidemiological tool -- but there
was no major variant in their genetic machinery.
In a commentary also published by The Lancet, molecular biologists Earl
Brown and Jason Tetro from the University of Ottawa, Canada, said that Liu's
evidence pointed to "a remarkable genetic conservation" of the virus since the
outbreak was first documented in February.
"This finding may be a double-edged sword," they warned.
It shows that the virus is well adapted to lodging in the human host -- in
other words, there is the risk that it is here to stay.
The virus is not under significant threat from the immune system and so has
no need to mutate to a different form, hopefully a more benign one. Mutation
such as this is what causes flu epidemics to die out.
On the other hand, the SARS virus' relative stability should make it easier
to target it with a vaccine, they said.
Viruses that mutate quickly -- cold, flu and to a lesser degree HIV are
among them - are in effect a moving target, because vaccines work by teaching
antibodies and killer blood cells the face of a familiar enemy.
"It's both good and bad news," Brown told AFP in a phone interview.
"The bad news is that we may get more of the same. The good news is that at
least we think we have a clear target and with time, we may be able to have a
vaccine."
Brown added a caveat.
Vaccines to combat animal versions of the coronavirus have had only limited
success.
"We're not sure why this is. It could be that the virus changes shape in
response to the vaccine and ducks the immune system."
Brown said SARS' genetic stability placed it in a new class from the two
other classes of coronavirus.
"There are now three types of corona. This is a new flavour," he said.
The SARS genome was sequenced earlier this month by two teams of Canadian
scientists.
The latest study helps to answer one of the most urgent questions about the
virus.
Still to come, though, are answers to other big unknowns: exactly how the
virus is transmitted; why some people are more vulnerable or more infectious
than others; and, of course, where are the weak points in the virus which can be
exploited by drugs and vaccines.
ri/gk/rc

waldron
07/5/2003
16:21
EVENING STANDARD 7.5.2003

SARS MAY BE SPREADING TO RURAL CHINA

SARS may be starting to spread across rural China, raising fears that the epidemic could explode in areas least equipped to identify and treat it, writes Geraint Smith.
As police announced that the pets of 16,400 families quarantined in Beijing will be isolated or killed to halt the spread of the disease,densely populated rural Hebei, which borders the capital, reported 21 new cases of infection brininging the provincial total to at least 134.
The worldwide death toll reached 495 as Hong Kong today reported another 11 deaths.Atleast 6,800 people have been infected across the world.

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This indicates to me that they also believe that rats may carry the SARS virus ,either inside their bodies, or on their fur. Hungry rats tend to eat anything they find in the sewers.Cats and dogs catch and eat rats.

freeme
07/5/2003
16:09
EVENING STANDARD 7.5.2003

SARS MAY BE SPREADING TO RURAL CHINA

SARS may be starting to spread across rural China, raising fears that the epidemic could explode in areas least equipped to identify and treat it, writes Geraint Smith.
As police announced that the pets of 16,400 families quarantined in Beijing will be isolated or killed to halt the spread of the disease,densely populated rural Hebei, which borders the capital, reported 21 new cases of infection brininging the provincial total to at least 134.
The worldwide death toll reached 495 as Hong Kong today reported another 11 deaths.Atleast 6,800 people have been infected across the world.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

This indicates to me that they also believe that rats may carry the SARS virus ,either inside their bodies, or on their fur. Hungry rats tend to eat anything they find in the sewers.Cats and dogs catch and eat rats.

freeme
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