International efforts to combat a new Sars-like virus that has killed 22 people are being slowed by the fact that a Dutch laboratory has patented copies of the pathogen in its search for...
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10 May 2013
French health authorities said on Thursday they feared the country’s first case of a new Sars-like virus that has killed 18 people, mostly in Saudi Arabia, may have infected two other people.
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8 May 2013
France’s health ministry on Wednesday reported the country’s first case of a Sars-like virus that has killed 18 people so far, mostly in Saudi Arabia.
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3 May 2013
Five Saudis have died of a new Sars-like virus during the past few days and two more are being treated in an intensive care unit, the Saudi Health Ministry said. All seven of the cases occurred in...
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4 Mar 2013
Ten years after the first Sars patient died at the start of what turned out to be a major epidemic outbreak, Hongkongers’ alertness towards infectious diseases like Sars and personal hygiene has...
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25 Sep 2012
Hong Kong will tighten surveillance of visitors’ body temperatures at border checkpoints, to guard against a deadly new virus, the health chief said on Tuesday.
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Karl Taro Greenfeld still vividly recalls his worst day ever. On a return trip from Shenzhen, he went to top up his Octopus card at the Hung Hom train station.
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Hong Kong health authorities tried to stop the World Health Organisation from issuing a travel advisory against the city at the height of the Sars outbreak in April 2003, a new book out this week...
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Better cross-border co-operation on infectious disease outbreaks is expected thanks to the opening of mainland-authorised laboratories at the University of Hong Kong.
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In the early months of last year's Sars outbreak, so little was known about the cause, much less the cure. Treatment was undertaken on a trial-and-error basis, here and elsewhere.
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Sanitation eyesores
It is common knowledge that poor hygiene and sanitation were among the main reasons for the rapid spread of the Sars virus at Amoy Gardens.
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When Sars first appeared in Guangdong last winter, official confirmation of the mystery disease was preceded by weeks of rumours and panic buying.
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