A Respiratory Illness: Treatment; Youth And Fitness Offer Little Defense Against Disease

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Foreign Desk | April 14, 2003, Monday
A RESPIRATORY ILLNESS: TREATMENT; Youth and Fitness Offer Little Defense Against Disease

By KEITH BRADSHER (NYT) 846 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 12 , Column 1

ABSTRACT - Health officials in Hong Kong report that new respiratory disease known as SARS is beginning to kill younger and healthier adults as well as older people, as medical treatments are proving somewhat less effective than originally hoped; efforts to harvest serum from patients who have recovered from disease and inject it into those still suffering, in hope that serum will contain antibodies, have run into safety problems; World Health Orgn says SARS has hit Hong Kong harder than anywhere else, for reasons that remain unclear; it has three-fifths of world's current SARS patients, although questions have been raised about veracity of mainland China's figures; photo (M) The new respiratory disease known as SARS is beginning to kill younger and healthier adults as well as older people here, as medical treatments are proving somewhat less effective than originally hoped, health officials announced here today.

Until this weekend, those who died from SARS -- severe acute respiratory syndrome -- had been largely people over 60, and often were those suffering from other health problems as well. But eight people with the disease died here this weekend, and five of them were ages 35 to 52 and did not have previous medical conditions that might have been contributing factors, said Dr. Liu Shao-haei, a senior manager of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority.

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