Yet more SARS
Apr. 22nd, 2004 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingMonths after it seemed to have died out, SARS has returned to China.
Beijing authorities reported on Thursday that a woman who has already been in intensive care for eight days has the disease. Five of her close contacts have developed fevers, and 171 more people who contacted the patient have been isolated.
The patient, a 20-year-old woman named Li who is a nurse at Jiangdong Hospital in Beijing, developed a fever and cough on 5 April, and was admitted to hospital two days later, according to the Chinese state news agency Xinhua. A week later she was transferred to intensive care at the hospital attached to Beijing University, the city's leading SARS institution. Doctors did not suspect SARS until two relatives who were tending the woman developed fevers on 19 April. Even so, it took until April 22 to report the case. This may be because no one expected SARS in spring...
...analysis of the Amoy Gardens cluster shows that under some circumstances of constrained airflow, and possibly heat and humidity, the virus can spread through the air...
Beijing authorities reported on Thursday that a woman who has already been in intensive care for eight days has the disease. Five of her close contacts have developed fevers, and 171 more people who contacted the patient have been isolated.
The patient, a 20-year-old woman named Li who is a nurse at Jiangdong Hospital in Beijing, developed a fever and cough on 5 April, and was admitted to hospital two days later, according to the Chinese state news agency Xinhua. A week later she was transferred to intensive care at the hospital attached to Beijing University, the city's leading SARS institution. Doctors did not suspect SARS until two relatives who were tending the woman developed fevers on 19 April. Even so, it took until April 22 to report the case. This may be because no one expected SARS in spring...
...analysis of the Amoy Gardens cluster shows that under some circumstances of constrained airflow, and possibly heat and humidity, the virus can spread through the air...