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SARS – severe acute respiratory syndrome – alarmed the world five years ... global pandemic of the 21st century. The coronavirus (SARS-CoV) that sickened more than 8,000 people – and killed nearly 800 of ... source is not yet known. To better understand how SARS-CoV may have jumped from bats to humans, investigators generated a ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 31 2025 - 1:20pm - 0 attachments

Researchers have discovered a new SARS-like virus that can jump directly from its bat hosts to humans without ... pup. Credit: Olivà S. Noroalintseheno Lalarivoniaina SARS first jumped from animals to humans in 2002-2003 and caused a worldwide ... Chapel Hill. With nearly 800 deaths during that outbreak, SARS-CoV presents much like flu symptoms but then can accelerate, compromise ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2024 - 3:21pm - 0 attachments

... interest in estimating the spread of diseases like HIV and SARS using population-level models in order to keep pandemics from turning into ... for smallpox but at least that has outward symptoms. With SARS a few years ago they instead had to have travelers at major airports go ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 28 2019 - 5:43pm - 0 attachments

... is used in labs working with tuberculosis, SARS and West Nile virus. Just to work with E. coli that couldn't ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 12 2018 - 12:21pm - 0 attachments

... city banned the sale of snake dishes in the wake of SARS in 2003, because snakes may have spread the virus and snakes are also ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Apr 27 2018 - 2:05pm - 0 attachments

... probably don't. It never happened. Likewise with Ebola, SARS, Avian flu, you name it and it has been called an epidemic, and the NIH ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 1 2016 - 6:30am - 0 attachments

... the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), airline travel clearly connected cases in people from Asia and Canada. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2015 - 11:01am - 0 attachments

... model to analyze screening for six viruses: the SARS coronavirus, the Ebola virus, the Middle East respiratory syndrome ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2015 - 3:13pm - 0 attachments

... documented for other diseases including TB, measles and SARS. "Although we don't understand what makes someone a 'super-spreader', ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 24 2015 - 8:00am - 0 attachments

It is pretty hard to trust or admire our government on a good day. However, this is more of a theoretical concern than a practical one, since they haven't had a whole lot of them lately.  In July alone, workers for the Centers for Disease Contr ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Oct 24 2014 - 8:30am - 0 attachments