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Ibrahim
I wrote this message at the dormatary today is thursday
and I got up at 8.00I prepared my books to goto the school I live in a
dormatary here while I was goin out I saw my room mate in the canteen and he
has breakfeast .he said come and have breakfeast .then I went .while we were
watching news on tv a new interested me this new is in china .there is a virus
there . nobodyknows what is it?and 64 people died until this day .there is a
doctor in these died people .I was very sad about this .may your life be
speared for chinese people .I hope it will block someone for also I want to
explain something about my life.I am astudent in bolu at universtiy but my
family in manisa /akhisar I stay a dormatary . I have got 6 friends in room I
love them very much .their names serhat, muhammet,özkan,nazIm,fatih,emre
.they are my best friend in bolu . now I must gosee you .Iwant a thing someone
who is in chine now . I dont know this virus .can you explain it me thanks alot
07 Apr 2003 Maggi replied:
The virus is called SARS for short and started in China and went to
Hong Kong and has now spread to 68 countries so far. People travel. The people
who have it get a type of pnemonia...a lung disease that makes it hard to
breath. Most people so far don't seem to die from it but many do. I think it is
scary for the people in Asia.
Maggi :-)
08 April icon007_1 replied:
SARS has possessed the headline of newspaper for almost two-week long in
Taiwan. People who infected SARS were forced to custody in their place by
government for three to ten days according different situation.
It¡¦s become necessary to know whether people were infected and
keep those infected in control. Mask covered the people¡¦s face in
most large cities in Asia. WHO warned tourist not to visit danger area (China,
Hong Kong, Taiwan etc.) if not necessary. Since the high death rate of SARS,
people take it for another AIDS. Scientists still have no methods to fight this
awful disease. People, who carry AIDS pathogen, still allow taking bus,
airplane and any other mass transportation, however, any cough in public should
appall everyone now. Some were prohibited went back homeland just because of
their suspicious syndromes. Otherwise, airplane companies also
don¡¦t want to carry any of them. Asia countries just in panic and
have little to do with. Take care my friends.
08 April Anh replied:
Hi Maggi
Yes, it is very scary to Asian. There are 76 people in Vietnam have SARS
and 4 of them was died . We don't travel much these days. Today there was a
memory ceremony for an Italian doctor who worked for WHO. He discovered the
first patient of SARS in Vietnam, a Chinese American arrived Vietnam via
Hongkong. And now both of them , plus two other doctors, were died.
Anh
11 Apr 2003 - Vance Stevens wrote
Thanks Ibrahim for starting us on this discussion of the second most
followed news story in the world these days. While traveling recently, I was
concerned with getting this disease. I started to get sick in Texas and had a
cough by the time I reached Switzerland. I didn't have much energy for skiing
when I got there (I went skiing anyway :-) but I decided I'd better get home
earlier than planned.
No one seemed too concerned about my cough and I was allowed to travel.
I managed to suppress it at customs in Dubai, but by the time I reached home I
had a fever ranging from 38-39, which I'm hoping to recover from soon.
Of course I was concerned that this might be SARS, so I read up on it
on the plane. The disease is caused by a virus, and as you probably know, viral
infections are almost impossible to identify and treat ... I mean, if you get a
cold, there is not much you can do other than rest it and take drugs to treat
the symptoms. Antibiotics are not effective against viruses and might be
prescribed only to prevent secondary infections that might take advantage of a
weakened immune system. This particular virus had killed 26 out of 2600
patients who had been hospitalized for it (at the time of the article I was
reading), or 1 in 100 of the most acute cases, where patients had been
diagnosed as having SARS and had sought treatment.
But there are two other categories of people with SARS. There are
carriers of the virus who have no symptoms of the disease but who spread it
nevertheless, and there are people with the virus who have milder symptoms and
may not seek treatment. In other words, what I have right now (a cold and fever
with not much breathing distress) might be caused by the SARS virus or might be
caused by some other virus. If the fever goes away soon I'll probably never
know, unless someone in my family gets it and must be treated. Apparently this
is a highly contageous virus.
On 11 Apr 2003 Roseray Lam wrote:
Hi Vance, I think you'd better go to see a doctor no matter it is
simply a cold or whatever. This virus is highly contagious and attacks your
lung which causes you hard to breathe. All schools are closed in Hong Kong and
an apartment had to be evacuate for disinfection. The families who have their
members infected with the virus are put under quarantine. Take care! Rose.
Hi readers, if you are a native speaker of English (or very good at
English) please correct the postings you see here and send me an email with the
corrected version. I need help with this kind of work. Thanks, Vance
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