The Sars Epidemic: The Virus; Health Group Certain Of Agent In Respiratory Ailment

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Foreign Desk | April 17, 2003, Thursday
THE SARS EPIDEMIC: THE VIRUS; Health Group Certain of Agent in Respiratory Ailment

By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN (NYT) 1079 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 13 , Column 1

ABSTRACT - World Health Orgn says animal experiments prove conclusively that agent causing severe acute respiratory syndrome is new member of coronavirus family; says it will be called SARS virus; discovery of SARS virus and proof of its role in causing disease come with astounding speed, after monthlong hunt; Dr David L Heymann, executive director of WHO's communicable diseases program, attributes speed of his agency's success to willingness of members of network to put aside usual competitiveness to develop extraordinary degree of cooperation at time of public health emergency; urgency is underscored by explosive nature of SARS virus; one patient can transmit virus to infect large numbers of other people, particularly health care workers (M) Ending a monthlong hunt for the cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome, the World Health Organization said yesterday that animal experiments had proved conclusively that the agent was a new member of the coronavirus family.

''We can now say with all confidence that the causative agent of SARS is the coronavirus first detected in Hong Kong on March 21,'' and it will be called the SARS virus, Dr. Klaus Stöhr, the scientific director of W.H.O.'s investigation of the disease, said in a teleconference with reporters from Geneva.



 

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