SARS

Tagesanzeiger: Peking schliesst Schulen
Aus Angst vor einer Ausbreitung der Lungenkrankheit Sars hat die chinesische Hauptstadt Peking alle Schulen geschlossen.

SouthAsiaTimes: HONGKONG: Health officials stumped by more resistant cases showing up
Unlike the first cases of Sars in the territory, recent ones appear to be less responsive to treatment

News24: SARS Mutates - Now Hitting Intestines, Too
HONG KONG -- The deadly Sars virus is now attacking the intestines as well as the respiratory system, a leading Hong Kong microbiologist said on Tuesday.
Speaking on Hong Kong radio station RTHK, Professor Malik Peiris of Hong Kong University said the change may indicate the virus has mutated as many experts feared.
Professor Peiris is one of the microbiologists at the forefront of the Hong Kong research into the Sars virus which on Tuesday claimed another five people in the territory bringing the total deaths to 99.
His comments come amid growing concern that the virus is becoming more virulent with many doctors noting changes in the way the disease behaves and who it proves fatal to.

News24: More Scientists Say
SARS Is A BioWeapon
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."