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SARS transmitted via droplets
Email: Robert Walgate - walgate@scienceanalysed.com News from The Scientist 2003, 4(1):20030519-02
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The virus last week confirmed as causing severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is transmitted almost entirely by large droplets reaching the mucous membranes of nose and lungs and not by feces or urine reaching the mouth, and the epidemic is coming under control, a meeting of SARS epidemiologists concluded Saturday (May 17) at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva. But two mysteries remain to be solved in China: the reservoir and a possible alternative transmission route.
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