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...managed to identify animals that may be the hosts for SARS. The potentially awful news: SARS might be present in a range of creatures too wide to be culled or controlled easily. "I am not happy (about this development)," says Dr. Yi Guan, a University of Hong Kong (HKU) microbiologist and co-leader of the study team. "I am very worried...
...invasion of Kuwait. Al-Bayati's replacement as head of the university's computer program, Ahmed Makki Saaed, has retained his position too. Saaed, who al-Bayati says regularly denounced him as a spy for the U.S., is married to the recently nabbed Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, a microbiologist whose alleged involvement in bioweapons research earned her the nickname "Mrs. Anthrax...
...will eventually reveal its weakest strand. ?The interesting part is the fact that you can go from finding the virus in just a few weeks, to the viral genome in a couple of weeks, and now use that genome information to target designer drugs,? says Dr. Malik Peiris, a microbiologist at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) who helped identify the coronavirus...
...room." Finkelstein also told the rest of the family members to isolate themselves, which they did. But he did not order the isolation of any of the patients and healthworkers with whom Tse had already been in contact. Should he have done so? "No," says Dr. Andrew Simor, a microbiologist and a member of the team coordinating Toronto's SARS response. "At that point there was no concept of how infectious...
...Toronto 13.5%. In Hong Kong, where baffled health officials held onto the 5% figure like a life preserver for weeks, the mortality rate has now passed 10%, with a cumulative total of 179 fatalities by the end of last week. "This is very worrying," says Professor John Tam, a microbiologist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong...