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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 research led by one virologist, Dr. Yi Guan, 42, and the extraordinary measures he took to make officials aware of his work may lead scientists to new ways to contain a fresh SARS outbreak...
...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...
...hosts were skeptical of this notoriously impetuous virologist, remembering that it had been Yi, in the early days of the first epidemic, who kept on insisting, incorrectly, that SARS was a novel form of avian influenza. Even after the genetic sequences had arrived from Hong Kong, his mainland peers were unconvinced. "When someone is showing you raw data, you have to be careful," said Dr. Xu Ruiheng, deputy director of the Guangdong CDC. "You have to ask yourself, is this real or is this fabricated?" In turn, Yi asked his Chinese counterparts if they had the sequences for the human...
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...