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...what makes SARS so frightening to scientists and the public is how much is still unknown about it, including where it came from, exactly how it spreads, how long its incubation period lasts (and thus how long a victim has been contagious when symptoms appear) and whether a vaccine will ever be available. Infectious-disease specialists are haunted by the great Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-19; it killed fewer than 3% of its victims but infected so many that at least 20 million people died in just 18 months--more than were killed in combat in World...
...Asia, Europe and North America are piecing together the natural history of SARS. That last effort should be made a lot easier with the Chinese government's decision last week to finally let a who team into Guangdong. Medical detectives may have already found the very first recorded victim - patient zero - a man in the city of Foshan who passed the virus on to four other people before he recovered...
...weeks ago. The key word here is “suspected.” Although there were nine “suspected” cases of SARS in Massachusetts as of Friday, none of those possible cases has ended in death. Nevertheless, the virus long ago claimed its first victim in Boston with the death of a sense of proportion about the risks of the disease for most people...
Officers did not find a victim on the scene, LaGrassa said Saturday afternoon. Police encountered Pring-Wilson, who they questioned and released...
...threatened Gäfgen with torture to force him to reveal the boy's whereabouts. Gäfgen was arrested last year after police saw him collect a 31 million ransom paid by the boy's father. Police said they needed to make the threat in case the victim was still alive, but in danger. Gäfgen then gave police the boy's location, but he was already dead. Judges ruled that Gäfgen's rights had been violated, and information obtained from him was inadmissible. Unusual Suspects SERBIA The government crackdown on organized crime, which began after...