A Respiratory Illness: The Virus; Experiments On Monkeys Zero In On The Cause Of A Mysterious Disease

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Foreign Desk | April 16, 2003, Wednesday
A RESPIRATORY ILLNESS: THE VIRUS; Experiments on Monkeys Zero In on the Cause of a Mysterious Disease

By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN (NYT) 924 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 6 , Column 1

ABSTRACT - Dr David L Heymann of World Health Organization says that monkeys experimentally infected with new coronavirus have developed illness similar to mysterious human respiratory disease SARS and that it is now almost certain that coronavirus causes disease; verifying cause of SARS is essential for development of reliable diagnostic tests to determine who has disease so that affected patients can be treated in isolation and those who are not affected can carry on with their normal activities; photo (M) Monkeys experimentally infected with a new coronavirus have developed an illness similar to the mysterious human respiratory disease SARS, and it is now almost certain that the coronavirus causes the disease, a World Health Organization official said here today.

Dr. David L. Heymann, executive director in charge of communicable diseases for W.H.O., said the agency ''is 99 percent sure'' that SARS is caused by the new coronavirus based on the monkey experiments in the Netherlands. Experiments on animals are necessary because the lack of an effective treatment for SARS and the relatively high death rate make it unethical to conduct such experiments on humans.



 

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