Guest guest Posted March 18, 2003 Report Share Posted March 18, 2003 - § Paranormal_Research@y ; *§ @y Sunday, March 16, 2003 3:11 PM [Paranormal_Research] American Biowarfare ALERT! UN Warns of Worldwide Threat from Killer Pneumonia 2 hours, 25 minutes ago Add Science - Reuters to My GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (news - web sites) warned on Saturday of a " worldwide health threat " as a mystery killer pneumonia spread from east Asia to other parts of the globe. Reuters Photo Releasing a rare " emergency travel advisory, " the United Nations (news - web sites) health agency said an ill passenger had been taken to an isolation unit in Frankfurt, Germany, on Saturday after being removed from a plane en route from New York to Singapore. A spokesman for the Geneva-based body said there were also reports two people had died in Canada, taking the death toll to eight since the first outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), an atypical pneumonia of which the cause is not yet known, was detected in China in February. Among the dead is an American businessman taken ill in Hanoi after visiting Shanghai. He died on Thursday in Hong Kong where 47 cases have been reported. Another 41 people are being treated for the illness in Hanoi and two of them are in a critical condition, according to local health officials. Cases have also been reported in Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Most cases have been among hospital workers. " This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat, " WHO director-general Gro Harlem Brundtland said in a statement. In its alert, WHO said travelers and airline crews needed to be aware of the first symptoms, which include high temperature and difficulty in breathing. It was likely that anybody taken ill would have been in contact with a person diagnosed with the disease or traveled to an area where cases had been reported, the alert said. But it said it was not calling for restrictions in travel to any area. WHO spokesman Dick Thompson said the passenger taken from the plane in Frankfurt was a Singapore doctor who had visited New York after treating some of the first suspected SARS patients in Singapore. WHO issued a global disease alert earlier this week because of the speed at which it travels and because patients are not responding to the usual treatments for pneumonia, Thompson said. " As reports of cases are confirmed, you will see that there is a very high attack rate. When they get sick, they get very sick, " he added. §*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§ Paranormal_Research - Scientific Data & Health Conspiracies Paranormal_Research Subscribe:... Paranormal_Research- Any information here in is for educational purpose only, it may be news related, purely speculation or someone's opinion, If health related always consult with a qualified health practitioner before deciding on any course of treatment, especially for serious or life-threatening illnesses. **COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml §*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§*§ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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