Word: virologist
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...inside story of how that decision to cull civets came to be made, however, is one of aggressive public health, great courage and, most important, good science. It is very possible that the research led by one virologist, Dr. Yi Guan, 42, and the extraordinary measures he took to make government officials aware of his work may have averted another disastrous SARS outbreak...
...resurgence of SARS is in place." He enclosed four pages of genetic sequences taken from civets and had the letter hand-delivered on Jan. 2. Within hours the Ministry of Health in Beijing passed the letter to the Guangdong Department of Health. Yi's reputation as a virologist was such that the Guangdong government invited him to Guangzhou on Jan. 3 to make his case...
They are the reason Dr. David Ho has come to China. The New York City--based virologist was named TIME's 1996 Person of the Year for his pioneering work on the drug therapies that have largely quelled the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. and Europe. Now Ho is confronting the AIDS virus in its most populous stronghold. Up to 1 million Chinese are HIV positive, and that number could easily grow to 10 million by 2010, according to the Joint U.N. Program on AIDS. If current trends continue for another decade or so, China could overtake Africa, where...
...record time, the coup was hailed as a milestone in medical history. And it was indeed a remarkable sign of how far medical research has come. But discovery often leads to greater uncertainty. "There aren't a lot of infectious diseases like this," says Dr. Ian Lipkin, a virologist at Columbia University. "This is a new virus we haven't encountered before, and we still don't understand a lot about its behavior." Scientists will eventually unravel much of this mystery. They just need more time. Here's hoping they can move as fast as the disease itself...
...Malaysia four years ago. On March 21, WHO announced that intensive efforts among 11 laboratories had produced the first potential diagnostic test for SARS, which up until now could be identified only by its symptoms. "This is not just some light at the end of the tunnel," says WHO virologist Dr. Klaus St?hr, WHO is coordinating the laboratories' efforts. "This is a real ray of sunshine...