SARS mortality climbing: 5% to 7.2% & Fear 10%

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Quoting KD Weber <wvadreamin:

 

> Virus to become more deadly

> http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,6333751%

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> SCIENTISTS warned yesterday that SARS was becoming more deadly as

> countries launched crackdowns.

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> The disease's mortality rate has climbed from 5 per cent in the early

> weeks of the crisis to 7.2 per cent and scientists fear it will reach at

> least 10 per cent.

> Chinese police last night sealed the Beijing University People's

> Hospital, where at least 60 nurses and doctors have confirmed or

> suspected SARS, to prevent suspect patients and medical staff leaving.

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> Beijing health authorities reassured panicked residents they had no

> plans to seal off the entire city of 14 million to stop the killer

> disease spreading, but roadblocks have been set up around the capital to

> check on the health of passengers.

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> As the disease continued its march around the world:

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> SINGAPORE began renovating a drug rehabilitation centre to serve as a

> jail for any of the 2467 people under home quarantine for SARS who

> disobey orders and leave home.

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> People entering or leaving Singapore will have their temperatures

> checked at borders.

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> CANADA was outraged the WHO has warned the world to avoid Toronto. The

> WHO also warned people against travelling to Beijing, Hong Kong,

> Guangdong and Shanxi provinces.

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> NEW ZEALAND reported its first suspected SARS case.

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> JAPAN'S Toyota Motor company pulled all staff from Beijing.

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> But most of the alarm was focused on China, particularly Beijing, where

> infections soared this week.

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> Of the 260 killed by SARS, 110 were in mainland China. It reported more

> than half of the world's 4500-plus infections. Beijing has reported

> almost 800 SARS cases - 90 up on the previous day - and 39 deaths.

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> Chinese people were stocking up on disinfectant and food amid WHO fears

> SARS may become a permanent human disease.

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> Dr Patrick Dixon, of the Development Management School in London, warned

> SARS could infect more people than HIV.

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> Sydney infectious disease expert Professor Dominic Dwyer said

> comparisons with AIDS were not helpful as HIV was sexually transmitted

> and SARS was spread much like the flu.

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