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Scientists find mystery illness virus, verify diagnostic test
Vaccine Weekly, 9/4/03
Scientists are perfecting a test to diagnose a newly discovered virus believed to be responsible for the mystery illness that has sickened hundreds of people worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) said March 22, 2003, that advances by the University of Hong Kong and others are bringing scientists closer to determining how to treat severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. The progress comes less than a week after the WHO pulled together the talent from 11 laboratories around the world in an unprecedented collaboration to hunt down the disease. "We can be relatively sure that we have now found the causative agent," said Dr. Klaus Stohr, a WHO virologist who is coordinating the global laboratory network. "It is the SARS virus. But, to which virus family it belongs, we don't know yet," he added.
Some researchers believe it is a new type of paramyxovirus, but studies from other labs suggest it may belong to another virus family.
The virus, isolated from the lung tissue of a patient who died from SARS, is the basis for the diagnostic test, which Stohr expected to be in the hands of hospital doctors in early April. "This spectacular achievement is an example of what the world can do when the intellectual resources of nations around the world are focused on a single problem," Stohr said. "This rapid advance is fueling the hope that SARS can and will be contained." The test would make it possible for doctors to quickly weed out and isolate patients with the new disease. The development of the diagnostic test was announced March 21, but experts were cautious because the results had not been confirmed by further experiments. By March 22 its accuracy had been verified in eight more patients and more details were released. "The consistency of these findings indicates that the test is reliably identifying cases of SARS infection," the WHO said. SARS has made 386 people around the world ill and killed 11 people in the first three weeks of March, according to WHO figures.
Experts suspect it is linked to an earlier outbreak of an unidentified disease in China, where officials say 305 people have fallen ill and 5 have died. Two of the recent deaths occurred in Canada, where officials said March 22 they were investigating a third death from what they suspect is SARS. Hong Kong remains the most seriously affected area, with more than half the total cases. Vietnam and Singapore have also been hit hard. The United States has reported 22 suspected cases, according to the latest WHO figures.
The State Department on March 22 warned Americans not to travel to Vietnam, one of the first countries affected. In Hong Kong, health officials reported March 23 that three people had contracted SARS from a colleague in an office. Previously the disease
had only spread between family members or hospital workers - people in close contact with the sick. Singapore said it would empty one of its main hospitals and dedicate it to coping with the disease.
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Two new studies highlight coronavirus as cause of virulent new pneumonia
By PASCAL BAROLLIER, AFP 10/4/03
Two studies published Thursday reinforce the likelihood that a coronavirus is responsible for a world SARS epidemic, but US health
authorities warned that more proof was needed to firmly identify a culprit. One of the studies in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded that "a novel coronavirus is associated with this outbreak" of the virulent new pneumonia strain known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). One of the research teams even proposed naming the coronavirus "Urbani," for Carlo Urbani, the World Health Organization's (WHO) Hanoi-based physician who contracted SARS and died in Bangkok on March 29. Urbani had tested the world's first known first SARS victim in Vietnam and alerted the scientific community to a serious new form of pneumonia afoot.
The second study in the journal arrived, by different means, at the same conclusion as the first, but were more cautious, writing, "the
novel coronavirus might have a role in causing SARS." The coronavirus is a family of viruses which, along with the Rhinovirus, is responsible for most cases of the common cold. It is named for its crown-like appearance in electron microscope imagery.
Julie Gerberding, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, said in commenting on the two studies, "We cannot yet say this is the definitive cause of SARS. "There are two ad***ional steps that must be fullfilled," she said.
"First of all, we need to demonstrate the coronavirus is in the lung of patients with the disease in areas where we would also see inflamation or pneumonia. "We've seen the virus in tissue and we've seen evidence of pneumonia, but we need to see them both in the same specimen," said Gerberding. "The second important aspect to prove definitive relationship is that we must have an animal model where we innoculate the coronavirus into an animal, the animal gets...pneumonia, and then we isolate the coronavirus from affected tissues in that animal model." She said CDC had already provided strains of the coronavirus to investigators in the Netherlands.
"They are pursuing this animal model and we await (the results) with great interest."
As of Thursday 3,031 probable SARS cases, including 112 deaths, had been reported worldwide to the WHO, including 1,290 infected in continental China. The CDC said 999 cases were in Hong Kong, including 31 dead, 133 in Singapore, of which nine died, and 62 in Vietnam, of which four died. Outside Asia, Canada is the hardest-hit country with 253 cases and 10 dead. The United States has had 166 suspected SARS cases and no deaths. The US regions hardest-hit by SARS are New York state on the mid-East Coast and Washington state in the Pacific Northwest. Thirty of the 50 US states have reported cases of the disease. Most of them have been in people who traveled in a high-risk zone in Asia, said the CDC. Others have gotten the disease through close contact with a sufferer.
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Mystery flu-like illness linked to Hong Kong hotel
TB & Outbreaks Week 8/4/03
The global spread of the mysterious flu-like illness that has killed 10 people appears to have started with a guest in a tourist hotel in
Hong Kong. Hong Kong health officials said that other guests who caught the disease then carried it to a Hong Kong hospital, Vietnam, Singapore, and Canada. Three of the seven people who stayed on the ninth floor of the Metropole Hotel died from severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. The cause of the illness remains unknown, but experts believe the most likely explanation is a new virus. There is no known treatment. Hong Kong health officials have traced the outbreak to a professor from China's Guangdong province who stayed at the Metropole Hotel on February 21-22. He died March 4. His case bolsters the belief that the outbreak stems from one that began last November in the southern part of Guangdong, where 300 people were sickened and 5 died.
The Metropole, a bland-looking, rectangular building, is a three- or four-star hotel located in a residential district of Hong Kong's
Kowloon peninsula, an area where many tourists stay. It is a short bus ride away from the main tourist area of Tsim Sha Tsui.
During the 2 days the infected Chinese professor stayed on the ninth floor, three women from Singapore were guests on the same floor. After they returned home, they became ill. Singapore's Health Ministry said all 34 Singapore SARS patients had been in contact with the three women. An American businessman from Shanghai also stayed on the ninth floor of the Metropole before flying on to Vietnam and falling ill, officials said. "His name was Johnny Chen," said Hoang Thuy Long, director of Vietnam's National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemics. "When Mr. Johnny Chen came to Vietnam, he was actually in an incubation period." Two days after his arrival, he was hospitalized at the Hanoi French Hospital but asked to be moved to a hospital in Hong Kong, where he
died. A third Metropole guest during that time was a 78-year-old woman from Toronto. She returned home where she infected her grown son. Both died. In ad***ion, a Hong Kong man visited a friend on the ninth floor while the professor was there, health authorities said. That man has been identified as the Hong Kong "index patient" who spread the disease to the Prince of Wales Hospital, where dozens of workers have been sickened, said Health Department spokeswoman Sally Kong. It remains unclear how the disease would have spread in the hotel. One expert has speculated it could have spread from the air-con***ioning. "Perhaps they all stood outside the elevator at the same time and someone sneezed or coughed," said Dr. Margaret Chan, the director of the Hong Kong Health Department. None of the 200-300 workers at the Metropole have become ill, Chan said.
Since the outbreak, hotel spokeswoman Anita Kwan said, guests had been given a letter explaining what had happened. She said none had been scared away. "The Health Department has already indicated that the germ doesn't exist here anymore," Kwan said. But she added that the ninth floor won't be reopened until it has been thoroughly checked. Dr. David Heymann, WHO's communicable diseases chief, said the cases at the hotel do not diminish the view that the illness is spread only by close contact because such a scenario has not been ruled out. "There is no evidence of casual contact," he said. "Speculation can go from it being a pigeon sitting on a window sill, flapping its wings outside four rooms, to anything under the sun." If the illness was spread as easily as passing somebody in acorridor, or through the air con***ioning system, cases would likely have shown up elsewhere in the hotel, experts said. While new cases continue to turn up daily, health officials are encouraged to see that reports of recovery are also on the rise. "In Vietnam there are 20 patients now out of 56 who are much better, and some are ready for discharge from the hospital," Heymann said. A Singapore doctor and his wife and mother-in-law who were on their way home when they were quarantined in Frankfurt, Germany, are also
recovering, doctors there said. It is unclear whether medications are helping them recover or whether they would have got better anyway
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Disease's Pioneer Is Mourned as a Victim
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., The New York Times 8/4/03
When the microbe that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome is finally isolated, some people will know what to call it. They want a Latin variation on Carlo Urbani's name. If SARS was an infectious cloud blowing out of southern China, Dr. Urbani was the canary in its path. Working in a hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam, as a mysterious pneumonia felled one nurse after another, he sang out the first warning of the danger, saw the world awaken to his call -- and then died. If not for the intuition of Dr. Urbani, director of infectious
diseases for the Western Pacific Region of the World Health Organization, the disease would have spread farther and faster than it
has, public health officials around the world say. It was a tricky call. There is nothing as telltale about the disease as the bleeding of a hemorrhagic fever or the bumps of a pox, and its symptoms mimic other respiratory con***ions.
Dr. Urbani, 46, died on March 29, a month after seeing his first case and 18 days after realizing he was coming down with the symptoms himself. "Carlo's death was the most coherent and eloquent epilogue his life could produce," said Nicoletta Dentico, a friend from the Italian chapter of Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, which Dr. Urbani once headed. "His death was as a giver of new life." And it was in keeping with his medical philosophy. When Dr. Urbani spoke in 1999 at the ceremony in which Doctors Without Borders accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, he described doctors' duty "to stay close to the victims." "It's possible to study an epidemic with a computer or to go to patients and see how it is in them," said Dr. William Claus, the group's emergency coordinator for Asia. "Carlo was in the second category." In Italy, he had pushed the organization into working with the poorest
of the poor, with Gypsies in Rome and with African and Albanian boat people who were landing in Sicily and Calabria. Even as a student, said Fabio Badiali, a childhood friend who is now mayor of Castelplanio, their hometown on the Adriatic Coast, he had been a volunteer, organizing groups to take the handicapped on countryside picnics. As a family doctor, he had taken vacations in Africa, traveling with a backpack full of medicine. He had accepted the W.H.O. post, friends said, because he wanted to be back in the third world and working with patients.
It was that instinct that took him to the bedside of Johnny Chen, an American businessman who entered Vietnam-France Hospital in Hanoi on Feb. 26 with flulike symptoms. Dr. Urbani might not have been an obvious choice as a consultant in Mr. Chen's case. In his heart, friends said, he was "a worm guy," a specialist in parasites. "Other people didn't think worms were ***y," said Dr. Kevin L. Palmer, W.H.O.'s regional specialist in parasitic diseases and a friend. "But it's a really basic problem for every child in the tropics." Dr. Urbani was an expert in Schistosoma mekongi in Vietnam, in the food-borne nematodes and trematodes of Laos and Cambodia and the hookworms of the Maldives. Dr. Lorenzo Savioli, who worked with Dr. Urbani in the Maldives, said they worked from sunup *****ndown, ignoring the famous beaches and reefs, tracking hookworm epidemiology and training workers at a malaria control laboratory, who were used to working with blood, in testing for worms. Over rice and fish in the evenings, Dr. Savioli said, they had joked, "Nobody at headquarters was going to believe we were spending our days in the Maldives over fecal samples." Dr. Urbani was a worm zealot, Dr. Palmer said, because they did so much damage but could be so easily treated. For example, he said, a 3-cent pill administered to schoolchildren twice a year could rid them of most intestinal worms. Dr. Urbani was working to have school systems in southeastern Asia cooperate. He also attacked a worm that lived on fish farms. He could not get Cambodians and Laotians to give up eating undercooked fish, Dr. Palmer said, but he hoped to solve the problem by teaching fish farmers to divert sewage from their ponds.
He was also testing the use of a veterinary drug to kill worm larvae that can reach human brains and cause seizures. And, said Daniel Berman, a director of the Doctors Without Borders campaign for cheaper lifesaving drugs, Dr. Urbani was pushing Vietnamese farmers to grow more sweet wormwood, a plant that can produce artemisinin, a new malaria cure. Still, when a troublesome case turned up in Hanoi, Dr. Palmer said, the W.H.O. staff usually said, "Call Carlo," because he was also known as an expert clinical diagnostician. Mr. Chen was such a case, suffering with pneumonia and fever, as well as a dry cough. The hospital suspected that he had the Asian "bird flu" that killed six people in 1997 and was stopped by rigid quarantines and the slaughter of millions of chickens and ducks. Rumors of a mysterious pneumonia had been coming out of the Guangdong region of southern China, but the Chinese authorities had been close lipped, even instructing local reporters to ignore it. Although no one then realized the significance, Mr. Chen, 48, had also stayed in the Metropole Hotel in Hong Kong. He may have picked up the disease from a 64-year-old Guangdong doctor in town for a wedding, staying in Room 911. Investigators theorize that the doctor infected 12 other guests, several from the same floor, who carried the disease to Singapore, Toronto and elsewhere.
By the time Dr. Urbani arrived at Vietnam-France Hospital, the microbe that Mr. Chen carried was spreading. Before he died, he infected 80 people, including more than half of the health workers who cared for him. The virulence of his case alarmed world health officials, helping lead to the extraordinary health alert that W.H.O. issued on March 15. But Dr. Urbani, who first saw Mr. Chen in late February, quickly recognized that the disease was highly contagious and began instituting anti-infection procedures like high-filter masks and double-gowning, which are not routine in impoverished Vietnam. Then he called public health authorities. Dr. Palmer recalled Dr. Urbani's conversation: "I have a hospital full of crying nurses. People are running and screaming and totally scared. We don't know what it is, but it's not flu." On March 9, Dr. Urbani and Dr. Pascale Brudon, the W.H.O. director in Hanoi, met for four hours with officials at the Vietnam Health Ministry, trying to explain the danger and the need to isolate patients and screen travelers, despite the possible damage to its economy and image.
"That took a lot of guts," Dr. Palmer said. "He's a foreigner telling the Vietnamese that it looks bad. But he had a lot of credibility with
the government people, and he was a pretty gregarious kind of character." With dozens of workers at the hospital sick, it was quarantined on March 11. Infection-control practices were instituted at other hospitals, including the large Bach Mai state hospital, where Dr. Claus of Doctors Without Borders oversaw them. Dr. Urbani's quick action was later cre***ed with shutting down
Vietnam's first outbreak. In the middle of it, Dr. Savioli said, Dr. Urbani had an argument with his wife, Giuliani Chiorrini. She questioned the wisdom of the father of three children ages 4 to 17 treating such sick patients. Dr. Savioli said Dr. Urbani replied: "If I can't work in such situations, what am I here for? Answering e-mails, going to ****tail parties and pushing paper?" In an interview with an Italian newspaper, Ms. Chiorrini said her husband knew the risks. "He said he had done it other times," she recalled, "that there was no need to be selfish, that we must think of others."
But on March 11, as he headed to Bangkok for a conference on deworming schoolchildren, he started feeling feverish and called Dr. Brudon. "He was exhausted, and I was sure it was because he had had a lot of stress," Dr. Brudon said later. "I said, 'Just go.' "
But she had second thoughts. "I called my colleagues in Bangkok and said, 'Carlo doesn't feel well, and we should be careful.' "
Dr. Scott Dowell, a disease tracker for the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who is based in Thailand, met him at
the Bangkok airport near midnight. Dr. Urbani, looking grim, waved him back. They sat in chairs eight feet apart until an ambulance arrived 90 minutes later, its frightened attendants having stopped for protective gear. For the first week in a Bangkok hospital, Dr. Urbani's fever receded, and he felt a bit better. But he knew the signs. "I talked to him twice," Dr. Palmer said. "He said, 'I'm scared.' "
That was uncharacteristic for a man who was known as big, charming and full of ironic wit. In Italy, he staved off boredom by hang gliding. In Hanoi, he negotiated the insane traffic on a motorcycle and took his children on overnight car jaunts to rural villages. He carried Bach sheet music and stopped at churches, asking if he could play.
W.H.O. experts flew in from Australia and Germany to help. One scoured Australian drug companies for ribavirin, a toxic antiviral drug that was said to have helped some cases. It did not help Dr. Urbani, though, and was withdrawn. Then patches showed up on a lung X-ray, and he told his wife to take the children and return to Castelplanio. Instead, she sent them ahead and flew to Bangkok. By the time she arrived, his room had been jury-rigged as an isolation ward. Carpenters had put up double walls of glass, and fans had been placed in the window to force air outside. The couple could talk only by intercom, and Ms. Chiorrini saw him conscious just once. As his lungs weakened, Dr. Palmer said, he was put on a respirator. In a conscious moment, Dr. Urbani asked for a priest to give him the last rites and, according to the Italian Embassy in Bangkok, said he wanted his lung tissue saved for science. As fluid filled his lungs, he was put on a powerful ventilator, sedated with morphine. The end came at 11:45 on a Saturday morning. Doctors and nurses heavily shrouded in anti-infection gear pounded on his chest as his heart stopped four times, Dr. Dowell said, but it was useless. Most of those who had died of SARS were old or had some underlying con***ion that weakened them, but "he worked with patients for weeks, and we suspect he got such a massive dose that he didn't have a chance," Dr. Palmer said. "It's very sad," Dr. Claus said, "that to raise awareness as he did, you have to pay such a price
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No drugs effective against mystery illness, U.S. health officials say
Medical Letter 17/4/03
U.S. health officials say that none of the antiviral drugs and other treatment they have tested are effective against a flu-like disease
that has sickened thousands around the world. They also expanded their travel advisory, suggesting that anyone planning nonessential travel to mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore or Hanoi, Vietnam, "may wish to postpone their trips until further notice." "The global epidemic continues to expand," said Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "We recognize this as an epidemic that is evolving." The majority of the cases have been in Asia, where the illness is believed to have originated.
On March 29, the first doctor to realize the world was dealing with an unfamiliar disease died of the illness in Thailand. Dr. Carlo Urbani, 46, of Italy, a World Health Organization expert on communicable diseases, became infected while working in Vietnam, where he diagnosed a U.S. businessman hospitalized in Hanoi, the U.N. agency said. The businessman later died. U.S. health officials believe illness comes from a new form of coronavirus, the virus that causes about a fifth of all colds. Gerberding said that no successful drugs or treatments had yet been found. "We have no evidence that any specific antiviral, steroid treatment or other agents that are targeting this virus have any benefit to patients," she said.
Thousands of Hong Kong residents donned surgical masks but many others refused to venture out, and activity in the usually bustling city stopped. Schools were closed, and some companies shut down after workers became sick. The illness appears to have originated in China, which has been criticized for being slow in reporting cases. WHO officials who went to China to investigate the disease said Beijing has promised to improve monitoring of the illness, with daily updates from every province. "We are desperate to know more about the scope and the magnitude of" SARS in China, Gerberding said. "It's the biggest predictor of where this will be headed in coming weeks"
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Vietnam mulls closing Chinese border in bid to fight SARS
AFP 19/4/03
Vietnam is considering closing its land border with China in a bid to prevent the spread of SARS, official media said. The proposal to bar overland visitors from SARS-hit China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada and Taiwan has been submitted to Prime Minister Phan Van Khai by Health Minister Tran Thi Trung Chien. The health minister cited "increased risk" from the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic which "has severely affected China and Hong Kong", the youth daily Tuoi Tre said. Chien suggested that the 1,130-kilometre (700-mile) border with China be sealed for the time being. The prime minister should give an answer within the next few days.
Thousands of people cross the China-Vietnam land border daily and customs and police officers are helpless to check the movement, the minister said. Visitors from the listed areas would have to use other entry points, mainly airports, and carry a certificate declaring they are SARS-free. The health minister also urged Vietnam Airlines to distribute masks to all passengers and crew, Tuoi Tre said.
World Health Organisation representative Pascale Brudon said on Tuesday that Vietnam has the SARS outbreak under control but that it still faces the threat of massive import of the disease from China. Following the death of a French doctor last weekend, SARS has so far killed five people and infected 63 in Vietnam
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