The spring saw the quick end of major combat abroad, while the threat of a widespread SARS epidemic abated. |
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The successful containment of the SARS outbreak was therefore due to both the efficiency of quarantine and the nature of the virus itself. |
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Just as pandemic influenza is now considered a noneradicable zoonosis, the question arises whether SARS is, too. |
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The spread of SARS was a concentrated exposure of the problem concerning the inharmonious economic and social development in China. |
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The desertion hit us hard, largely because we already knew how difficult the situation was in Toronto's two downtown Chinatowns before SARS hit. |
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In the liver, varying degrees of centrilobular necrosis and steatosis and a mild portal inflammatory infiltrate were seen in the SARS patients. |
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When the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was bombed, during SARS, when the US spy plane came down. |
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Radiographically, SARS is closely mimicked by bacterial bronchopneumonia or other viral pneumonias. |
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In the two months following his warning, cases of SARS in Hong Kong leapt sevenfold, from 260 to over 1,700 infections. |
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Researchers tested their SARS vaccine on four African green monkeys, with another four in the control group. |
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A bunch of scientists are now theorizing that SARS might have arrived on Earth from another planet. |
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As SARS infection could not be excluded the patient was transferred directly to an isolation ward on the same day. |
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The worst scenario for the current SARS epidemic would be if it stormed into China's vast rural areas. |
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This picture of the two young lovers is the symbol of love in the SARS times. |
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If it happens, the death toll could be many times that of the recent SARS epidemic. |
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If the vaccinated person ever encounters the actual SARS virus, his or her immune system will be primed to neutralize it. |
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However, the arrival of SARS changed that and his name has become a household word around the country. |
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The world has recently seen an emergence or re-emergence of infectious diseases such as smallpox, SARS, West Nile virus, and monkeypox. |
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In summary, SARS is a highly contagious and predominantly pneumonic illness. |
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A confirmed outbreak would be a shock for the government following the recent reemergence of SARS in southern China. |
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At Singapore's Changi International Airport it has been adapted for use in the war on SARS, to scan human bodies for high temperatures. |
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Pandemic influenza remains a non-eradicable zoonosis, and SARS has made an unwelcome zoonotic incursion. |
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Everywhere SARS has struck, healthcare workers have been its primary victims. |
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He expressed appreciation for the medical supplies provided by Japan to Taiwan during the SARS crisis. |
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The possible source of the SARS virus in that epidemic was agitated sewage water. |
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The question that came up for me reading your information about SARS has to do with numbers of cases. |
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Ma broached the idea of Toronto and Taipei joining hands to inform each other on the latest SARS information. |
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A day later the 500 bed Ditan Hospital, one of six in the city designated for SARS patients, was also quarantined. |
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If you're in West Africa, it's a nightmare and very serious, and far more deadly already than SARS was. |
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A secondary goal is to assess how well the vaccine stimulates the immune system to produce antibodies and cellular immunity, in this case, focusing on the SARS spike protein. |
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They discovered the SARS virus in lung tissue, but most surprisingly, they were able to find the presence of the virus in sweat glands, intestines and several other organs. |
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In the space of only a few months, the word SARS has rolled around the world, bringing panic and fear to some places and a sense of foreboding to others. |
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The institute is engaged in research involving the SARS coronavirus. |
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The scientists working on the cause of SARS have already focused their attention on a coronavirus after an initial suspicion that a paramyxovirus might be the cause. |
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He said he was keeping away from public places where the deadly SARS virus could spread but had not taken to wearing a face mask to protect himself. |
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She was dead right yesterday in her unprecedented attack on the health minister concerning the SARS file. |
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I think the biggest problem which we face is the next pandemic of influenza, and I think in a sense the SARS has given us a wake-up call for that. |
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The air, however, holds the suspended product of untold sneezes, coughs and wheezes, many of them, we must remember in the time of SARS, from Chinese Canadians. |
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During the SARS outbreak, people avoided densely populated public areas and any place where people congregated in confined spaces. |
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Chinese authorities opened hundreds of fever clinics throughout the country where suspected SARS cases were triaged. |
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Why has the government done nothing when in other instances, such as SARS and the power outage, it was quick to react? |
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Other recent work has underscored the need for masks, regular handwashing and good disinfection in hospitals managing SARS patients. |
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Protesters blame him for mismanaging the economy, bungling the fight against SARS, and listening too carefully to Beijing and not enough to local opinion. |
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We were in the States again, but it was a rush job to get it organised after the venue was changed from China, where the SARS epidemic hit. |
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Indeed, if we control SARS in Canada, but allow it to spread rampantly in southern countries, the virus will return to haunt us yet again. |
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Whether it has been SARS in Toronto, West Nile in Saskatchewan, or a mad cow in Alberta, the federal Liberals offer photo ops and excuses. |
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There is no question that the outbreak of SARS has focused the world's attention on the dangers of how easily a virulent disease can spread around the globe. |
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While the new coronavirus is still the leading hypothesis for the cause of SARS, other viruses are still under investigation as potential causes. |
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If SARS recurs, then appropriate questions will be added to the donor screening process. |
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The world has watched as SARS took root in China and how China misreported the now deadly effects of this mysterious outbreak. |
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The debate on SARS in the European Parliament on 13 May added nothing to these observations and perplexities. |
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This is something that did not exist when there seemed to be a lot of confusion on how to respond to the SARS crisis. |
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Concerns about the impact of the SARS virus also clouded the outlook for economic growth in East Asia. |
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The measures that we take at national levels to effectively handle SARS will benefit from us working together. |
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We believe that the global impact of this platform in the battle against the spread of viruses such as SARS will be extremely valuable. |
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That said, SARS is much more communicable than Ebola, meaning it is easier to catch. |
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Policemen will no longer accept SARS as a legitimate excuse. |
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Avian influenza, unlike SARS, can pass through gauze face masks. |
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I know a woman who believes that the SARS virus was caused by Asians double dipping in their soy sauce. |
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The animal reservoir for SARS is bats, whereas the reservoir for MERS is primarily camels. |
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What will happen if bioengineering, cloning, global epidemics such as SARS and splitting of society into haves and have nots are taken to extremes? |
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That is a strong signal of the positive move of the SARS situation. |
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In sum, SARS spread to many more countries than Ebola has so far. |
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In China in 2004, to try and stop the SARS epidemic, the authorities killed over 10.000 civets during a campaign of extermination of this animal suspected to spread the disease. |
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And since palm civets have been identified as a possible source of the SARS virus, a cull looks, on the face of things, like a good idea. But the trouble is that nobody knows if it will actually do any good. |
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Had we had access to the WHO and WHA observership, we would have been able to handle SARS more effectively,'' Ma said. |
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While the impact of SARS began to fade in the third quarter, the effects of BSE continued to be felt, and activity was further reduced by a power blackout in Ontario. |
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The SARS coronavirus, sometimes shortened to SARS-CoV, is the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome. |
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The PLA's culture of secrecy allowed the unmonitored spread of SARS, an often fatal respiratory ailment, in the army's medical system in 2003. Carrier tradeThe PLA knows its weaknesses. |
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Sri Lankan-born virologist Malik Peiris and his team at the University of Hong Kong were the first to isolate the agent causing SARS, in mid-March. |
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I've never been a germophobe, but this recent flu season has me wanting to buy a baby-sized SARS mask and strap it to my baby whenever we leave the house. |
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Epidemiological interpretation of SARS in-out flow data. |
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My experience with SARS taught me to always expect the unexpected. |
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When we see SARS and the seriousness of it and the 27 deaths we grieve for in Canada and the 700 we grieve for around the world, it is mild in comparison to what it could be and what will likely be in the future. |
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Three weeks is too late for many of the clinical decisions that doctors must make in treating patients thought to have SARS from the time they are taken ill with fever, headache, malaise and dry cough. |
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They got a nasty shock, for instance, in 2003 when an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, showed how a virulent new plague, if uncontained, might impose huge costs on a modernising economy. |
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The mask is CE-certified an inactivates pathogens like those that can ause Influenza A, H1N1, H5N1, common colds, measles, MRSA, pneumonia and SARS, in the mask. |
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Other lectures involved reducing anxiety associated with anesthetizing children, updates on how to manage acute brain injury, and how Toronto's experience with SARS can help us plan for a flu pandemic. |
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The new equipment provides the GSC with greater capacity to take on projects such as the recent sequencing of the Avian flu virus and the sequencing of the SARS coronavirus, completed last spring. |
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International SARS studies have not shown a difference in efficacy between surgical masks and N95 respirators in preventing transmission of the SARS coronavirus. |
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A newly identified acute respiratory syndrome caused by a new virus, the SARS coronavirus, which is believed to recently have crossed the species barrier from animals to humans. |
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The three most recent outbreaks—of SARS, bird flu and swine flu indicate that the next pandemic is likely to be zoonotic in origin. Mr Quammen analyses individual diseases, searching for patterns in their outbreaks. |
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For example, a bioinformatics application could trace the incidence of SARS across the country or within a specific area using an Internet search engine. |
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The rapid and unprecedented international cooperation to control SARS is a step in the evolution of global systems necessary to reduce the threat of new and reemerging diseases and immune microorganisms. |
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If there is one thing we have learned in spades in Canada when dealing with an infectious disease such as SARS, it is the importance of time and of being very aggressive in dealing with the SARS virus with everything we have. |
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Exports also provided support for the recovery, especially in the second half of the year, once the doubts over the war in Iraq and the SARS epidemic had ebbed away. |
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Actions against bird flu or SARS require the willingness to change. |
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Economic activities slowed down and schools were closed for weeks at the height of SARS epidemic. |
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During the listeriosis outbreak last summer, what our industry really needed was a voice and a face that Canadians could rely on, like we had during the BSE crisis and the SARS crisis. |
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EcoHealth Alliance is now a leading voice calling for better tracking and data collection to prevent the next SARS or monkeypox outbreak. |
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More are dying as a result of infectious disease like SARS and pneumonia. |
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It takes a crisis like SARS or an ice storm to blow off this surplus. |
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Another SARS superspreader took the invader by the hand to Singapore's 1200-bed Tan Tock Seng Hospital. |
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The preliminary conclusion was that the SARS virus crossed the xenographic barrier from palm civet to humans. |
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For the control group, the 39 non-SARS patients were those who had symptoms similar to those for the SARS patients. |
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The rotation-related larger number of exhibitions and trade fairs in 2003 suffered from the negative impact of the recessionary economic conditions, the consequences of the Iraq conflict and the effects of the SARS epidemic. |
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We struck up a conversation and once we got past pleasantries about the weather, flying, and mosquitoes in Winnipeg, we settled on more engaging topics, such as the war in Iraq, SARS and Canadian politics. |
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The spread of SARS has to be dealt with but even more important, we have to limit the collateral damage of a nation that could become quite phobic about how this is being dealt with. |
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While we mostly have no direct contact with wild animals or animal trading, our economy has been badly hurt by SARS and bird flu because these diseases are transmittable to humans. |
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What with the war in Iraq, the fight against SARS and the financial difficulties or bankruptcy of North American airlines, the atmosphere in the first half-year of 2003 was somewhat downbeat. |
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In addition, the EU Network for the Epidemiological Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases called on the Commission to promote research to stamp out the SARS outbreak. |
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While U. S. passenger traffic continued to lag behind international and domestic traffic, coincident with SARS, the war and BSE, we saw positive signs in each market. |
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Mind you, non-terrorist activities, such as SARS or BSE, may have done more to impel inter-government and international cooperation than the threat of terrorist attack. |
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This model does not take into account spatial and stochastic processes of SARS transmission. |
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As witnessed with SARS and again with the H1N1 virus, diseases can spread around the globe in a matter of hours, impacting businesses virtually overnight. |
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The SARS coronavirus propagated in Vero-E6 was used as an antigen to test whether SARS-coronavirus antibodies were raised in sera. |
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The last decade has not only seen a resurgence of deadly infections like AIDS and SARS, but also a chronic serious epidemic commonly termed as lifestyle diseases. |
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The threats we face today from a superbug like SARS, for instance, or from Islamist terrorism can go global faster than any of the threats in the past. |
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Those fiscal difficulties that we had with SARS, mad cow and all those other plagues and pestilences, as the minister has described, will be rippling through our 2004-05 fiscal year. |
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Many local animals have been screened and evidence of SARS has been found in three species palm civets, racoon dogs and Chinese ferret badgers that are sold alive in food markets. |
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Last week, Yuen's team, in collaboration with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Shenzhen, successfully isolated the SARS coronavirus from masked palm civets. |
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Sixteen percent also said they were less concerned about global conflicts, and three percent said they were more confident about health matters such as SARS and Norwalk Virus. |
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Hong Kong financial centre matured in the 1990s, but was greatly affected by the Asian financial crisis in 1998, and again in 2003 by the SARS outbreak. |
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Chinese horseshoe bats carry two viruses that are closely related to the coronavirus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in people. |
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After the SARS outbreak in 2003, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan launched campaigns to discourage public spitting by issuing fines to public spitters. |
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Nevertheless, these data support current recommendations for use of N95 masks and for special precautions when performing intubations on SARS patients. |
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By June 5, 2003, there were 8,400 cases of SARS worldwide and 775 deaths. |
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For example, NEUGENE compounds targeting SARS, WNV and Ebola were developed within days to weeks of obtaining the appropriate genetic sequences for the viruses. |
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