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SARs Man Made Says Russ.

Scientisthttp://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1346560,00.html

Moscow - The deadly pneumonia that has killed more than 100 people around

the world may be a man-made biological weapon, Russian experts said on

Friday. Nikolai Filatov, head of Moscow's epidemiological services, told

the Gazeta daily that he thought the pneumonia was man-made because " there

is no vaccine for this virus, its make-up is unclear, it has not been very

widespread and the population is not immune to it. " Yet he had some

reservations, since the virus has a low mortality rate - so far killing 4%

of those infected -, and because it is relatively difficult to pass on -

through direct contact or inhalation. The virus, according to academy of

medecine member Sergei Kolesnikov, is a cocktail of mumps and measles,

whose mix could never appear in nature. " We can only get that in a

laboratory, " he told a conference in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, quoted

by RIA Novosti news agency. It may have spread because of an " accidental

leak " from a lab, he added. More than 100 people have died and some 3 000

others have been infected by Severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars),

which is believed to have originated in China's southern Guangdong

province. http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-

1462_1346560,00.html

http://english.pravda.ru/region/2003/04/10/45919.htmlAtypical Pneumonia Virus

Cannot Be Barred from Moscow Over 20,000 passengers arriving in Moscow from the

countries of Southeast Asia and Europe which reported cases of atypical

pneumonia have been examined at Moscow's air and railway terminals, Nikolai

Filatov said to journalists on Tuesday. He is the chief state sanitary physician

of Moscow. Additional measures to prevent atypical pneumonia from getting into

Moscow have been taken at border automobile passes, airports and railway

stations, he said. As of now, five suspicious cases of the disease import have

been registered in Moscow. Luckily, the preliminary diagnoses have not proved

true. Still, " the import of this disease to Moscow cannot be ruled out, " said

Filatov. The Moscow authorities have set up an anti-epidemiological commission,

which will do work in several directions. It is, above all, " case-detection

organisational steps " . They are - stocking up reserves of interferon, hormonal

preparations, antibiotics, gauze bandages, preparation of infection cubicles in

two clinical hospitals, issue of leaflets calling on people not to go to

" dangerous " countries if unnecessary, prevention of illegal migration. If cases

of atypical pneumonia spring up, the commission will take emergency measures,

such as revealing contacts and putting them in isolation

 

 

 

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