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Aqui fica o artigo publicado hoje no Herald Tribune acerca de uma doença respiratória com sintomas de pneumonia e que não responde a antibióticos ou anti-viricos. Começa-se a pensar em bioterrorismo.. aiaiaia...

Warning issued on mystery illnesss

Worldwide alert by the WHO follows 9 deaths

As a mysterious respiratory illness spread to more countries, the World Health Organization has taken the rare step of issuing a health alert, declaring the ailment "a worldwide health threat" and urging all countries to help in seeking its cause and control.
.
The agency said that in the past week it had received reports of more than 150 new suspected cases of the illness, now known as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. The syndrome has caused at least nine deaths, the latest victim a nurse in Hanoi. Some victims have recovered, but no one has done so in the past two weeks. The ailment apparently does not respond to anti-viral and antibiotic drugs.
.
Reported cases have come from Canada and six countries in Asia - Hong Kong and elsewhere in China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam - the health organization said.
.
There have been no reports of the illness in the United States, but on Saturday a sick passenger and two companions who traveled from New York City were removed from a flight after it arrived in Frankfurt and put in isolation in a German hospital.
.
On Sunday, doctors at the hospital were monitoring the condition of the male passenger, his wife and another traveling companion.
.
The 32-year-old man showed symptoms of pneumonia and was being treated with antibiotics, Dr. Hanns-Reinhardt Brodt said at a news conference, The Associated Press reported.
.
X-rays and laboratory tests showed that the man - a doctor from Singapore who treated one of the earliest cases there and who was returning from a medical meeting in New York City - had "worsened slightly" overnight, Brodt said.
.
The doctor may have gone to a hospital in New York before flying back to Singapore via Frankfurt, according to the World Health Organization. Before boarding the flight, the doctor had called a colleague in Singapore to describe his symptoms, and the colleague notified WHO.
.
The cause of the ailment has not been identified. Scientists do not know whether it is a virus or even an infectious agent. Although health officials have suspected avian influenza, which has infected a small number of people sporadically in Hong Kong since 1997, laboratory tests have not detected that rare strain, known as influenza A(H5N1). As a result, laboratory scientists are focusing on the possibility of a previously unknown infectious agent.
.
U.S. health officials said Sunday that they are analyzing samples from the pneumonia-like illness and hope to have initial results from testing early this week.
.
Officials also are handing out information cards to travelers from countries where the disease has appeared, asking them to see a doctor if they experience symptoms such as high fever or respiratory problems.
.
Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a news conference that direct and sustained contact appeared to be necessary to transmit the illness from an affected individual to other people.
.
"There is no evidence to suggest that this can be spread through brief contact or assemblages of large numbers of people," she said.
.
Asked whether this might be an instance of bioterrorism, she replied, "We are keeping an open mind."
.
In its emergency advisory, issued Saturday, the WHO, an arm of the United Nations based in Geneva, said that "there is presently no indication to restrict travel to any destination."
.
But Gerberding said, "We are advising persons planning nonessential or elective travel to affected areas that they may wish to postpone their trip until further notice."
.
Updated information will be posted on the centers' Web site, www.cdc.gov/travel.
.
WHO and U.S. officials urged all travelers to be aware of the main signs of the ailment. In addition to breathing problems, the illness can cause a dry cough and other flulike symptoms that apparently develop about two to seven days after exposure.
.
Those symptoms usually appear as a sudden onset of high fever and go on to include muscle aches, headache, sore throat and shortness of breath. Standard laboratory tests often show low numbers of white blood cells and platelets, which help blood to clot.
.
WHO said that any passenger or airline crew member who developed such symptoms should immediately seek medical attention and ensure that information about their recent travel is passed on to the health care staff.
.
"Any traveler who develops these symptoms is advised not to undertake further travel until they have recovered," the agency said. If a passenger became ill on a flight, the agency asked the airline to alert the airport of destination and to refer any ill passengers to airport health officials.
.
"There are currently no indications to restrict the onward travel of well passengers, but all passengers and crew should be advised to seek medical attention if they develop" symptoms, the agency said.
.
In another rare step, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention activated its emergency operations center in Atlanta, including sophisticated communications technology, to enhance its ability to coordinate information from other countries and to investigate any suspect cases in the United States.
.
The agency has used the operations center only twice before, for the mosquito-borne West Nile fever epidemic last year and the anthrax attacks in 2001. The last time it issued a global health alert was in 1993, to enhance measures to control tuberculosis. WHO officials said they could not recall the last time an emergency global travel advisory was issued.
.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating the travel histories of the passengers who are now in a German hospital as well as one of the eight cases suspected to be the new syndrome in Toronto and Vancouver that Canadian health officials reported Friday.
.
So far, laboratory scientists have not been able to identify a known or novel infectious agent, said Dr. David Heymann, a WHO official. Worldwide alert by the WHO follows 9 deaths

As a mysterious respiratory illness spread to more countries, the World Health Organization has taken the rare step of issuing a health alert, declaring the ailment "a worldwide health threat" and urging all countries to help in seeking its cause and control.
.
The agency said that in the past week it had received reports of more than 150 new suspected cases of the illness, now known as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. The syndrome has caused at least nine deaths, the latest victim a nurse in Hanoi. Some victims have recovered, but no one has done so in the past two weeks. The ailment apparently does not respond to anti-viral and antibiotic drugs.
.
Reported cases have come from Canada and six countries in Asia - Hong Kong and elsewhere in China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam - the health organization said.
.
There have been no reports of the illness in the United States, but on Saturday a sick passenger and two companions who traveled from New York City were removed from a flight after it arrived in Frankfurt and put in isolation in a German hospital.
.
On Sunday, doctors at the hospital were monitoring the condition of the male passenger, his wife and another traveling companion.
.
The 32-year-old man showed symptoms of pneumonia and was being treated with antibiotics, Dr. Hanns-Reinhardt Brodt said at a news conference, The Associated Press reported.
.
X-rays and laboratory tests showed that the man - a doctor from Singapore who treated one of the earliest cases there and who was returning from a medical meeting in New York City - had "worsened slightly" overnight, Brodt said.
.
The doctor may have gone to a hospital in New York before flying back to Singapore via Frankfurt, according to the World Health Organization. Before boarding the flight, the doctor had called a colleague in Singapore to describe his symptoms, and the colleague notified WHO.
.
The cause of the ailment has not been identified. Scientists do not know whether it is a virus or even an infectious agent. Although health officials have suspected avian influenza, which has infected a small number of people sporadically in Hong Kong since 1997, laboratory tests have not detected that rare strain, known as influenza A(H5N1). As a result, laboratory scientists are focusing on the possibility of a previously unknown infectious agent.
.
U.S. health officials said Sunday that they are analyzing samples from the pneumonia-like illness and hope to have initial results from testing early this week.
.
Officials also are handing out information cards to travelers from countries where the disease has appeared, asking them to see a doctor if they experience symptoms such as high fever or respiratory problems.
.
Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a news conference that direct and sustained contact appeared to be necessary to transmit the illness from an affected individual to other people.
.
"There is no evidence to suggest that this can be spread through brief contact or assemblages of large numbers of people," she said.
.
Asked whether this might be an instance of bioterrorism, she replied, "We are keeping an open mind."
.
In its emergency advisory, issued Saturday, the WHO, an arm of the United Nations based in Geneva, said that "there is presently no indication to restrict travel to any destination."
.
But Gerberding said, "We are advising persons planning nonessential or elective travel to affected areas that they may wish to postpone their trip until further notice."
.
Updated information will be posted on the centers' Web site, www.cdc.gov/travel.
.
WHO and U.S. officials urged all travelers to be aware of the main signs of the ailment. In addition to breathing problems, the illness can cause a dry cough and other flulike symptoms that apparently develop about two to seven days after exposure.
.
Those symptoms usually appear as a sudden onset of high fever and go on to include muscle aches, headache, sore throat and shortness of breath. Standard laboratory tests often show low numbers of white blood cells and platelets, which help blood to clot.
.
WHO said that any passenger or airline crew member who developed such symptoms should immediately seek medical attention and ensure that information about their recent travel is passed on to the health care staff.
.
"Any traveler who develops these symptoms is advised not to undertake further travel until they have recovered," the agency said. If a passenger became ill on a flight, the agency asked the airline to alert the airport of destination and to refer any ill passengers to airport health officials.
.
"There are currently no indications to restrict the onward travel of well passengers, but all passengers and crew should be advised to seek medical attention if they develop" symptoms, the agency said.
.
In another rare step, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention activated its emergency operations center in Atlanta, including sophisticated communications technology, to enhance its ability to coordinate information from other countries and to investigate any suspect cases in the United States.
.
The agency has used the operations center only twice before, for the mosquito-borne West Nile fever epidemic last year and the anthrax attacks in 2001. The last time it issued a global health alert was in 1993, to enhance measures to control tuberculosis. WHO officials said they could not recall the last time an emergency global travel advisory was issued.
.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating the travel histories of the passengers who are now in a German hospital as well as one of the eight cases suspected to be the new syndrome in Toronto and Vancouver that Canadian health officials reported Friday.
.
So far, laboratory scientists have not been able to identify a known or novel infectious agent, said Dr. David Heymann, a WHO official. Worldwide alert by the WHO follows 9 deaths

As a mysterious respiratory illness spread to more countries, the World Health Organization has taken the rare step of issuing a health alert, declaring the ailment "a worldwide health threat" and urging all countries to help in seeking its cause and control.
.
The agency said that in the past week it had received reports of more than 150 new suspected cases of the illness, now known as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. The syndrome has caused at least nine deaths, the latest victim a nurse in Hanoi. Some victims have recovered, but no one has done so in the past two weeks. The ailment apparently does not respond to anti-viral and antibiotic drugs.
.
Reported cases have come from Canada and six countries in Asia - Hong Kong and elsewhere in China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam - the health organization said.
.
There have been no reports of the illness

in the United States, but on Saturday a sick passenger and two companions who traveled from New York City were removed from a flight after it arrived in Frankfurt and put in isolation in a German hospital.
.
On Sunday, doctors at the hospital were monitoring the condition of the male passenger, his wife and another traveling companion.
.
The 32-year-old man showed symptoms of pneumonia and was being treated with antibiotics, Dr. Hanns-Reinhardt Brodt said at a news conference, The Associated Press reported.
.
X-rays and laboratory tests showed that the man - a doctor from Singapore who treated one of the earliest cases there and who was returning from a medical meeting in New York City - had "worsened slightly" overnight, Brodt said.
.
The doctor may have gone to a hospital in New York before flying back to Singapore via Frankfurt, according to the World Health Organization. Before boarding the flight, the doctor had called a colleague in Singapore to describe his symptoms, and the colleague notified WHO.
.
The cause of the ailment has not been identified. Scientists do not know whether it is a virus or even an infectious agent. Although health officials have suspected avian influenza, which has infected a small number of people sporadically in Hong Kong since 1997, laboratory tests have not detected that rare strain, known as influenza A(H5N1). As a result, laboratory scientists are focusing on the possibility of a previously unknown infectious agent.
.
U.S. health officials said Sunday that they are analyzing samples from the pneumonia-like illness and hope to have initial results from testing early this week.
.
Officials also are handing out information cards to travelers from countries where the disease has appeared, asking them to see a doctor if they experience symptoms such as high fever or respiratory problems.
.
Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a news conference that direct and sustained contact appeared to be necessary to transmit the illness from an affected individual to other people.
.
"There is no evidence to suggest that this can be spread through brief contact or assemblages of large numbers of people," she said.
.
Asked whether this might be an instance of bioterrorism, she replied, "We are keeping an open mind."
.
In its emergency advisory, issued Saturday, the WHO, an arm of the United Nations based in Geneva, said that "there is presently no indication to restrict travel to any destination."
.
But Gerberding said, "We are advising persons planning nonessential or elective travel to affected areas that they may wish to postpone their trip until further notice."
.
Updated information will be posted on the centers' Web site, www.cdc.gov/travel.
.
WHO and U.S. officials urged all travelers to be aware of the main signs of the ailment. In addition to breathing problems, the illness can cause a dry cough and other flulike symptoms that apparently develop about two to seven days after exposure.
.
Those symptoms usually appear as a sudden onset of high fever and go on to include muscle aches, headache, sore throat and shortness of breath. Standard laboratory tests often show low numbers of white blood cells and platelets, which help blood to clot.
.
WHO said that any passenger or airline crew member who developed such symptoms should immediately seek medical attention and ensure that information about their recent travel is passed on to the health care staff.
.
"Any traveler who develops these symptoms is advised not to undertake further travel until they have recovered," the agency said. If a passenger became ill on a flight, the agency asked the airline to alert the airport of destination and to refer any ill passengers to airport health officials.
.
"There are currently no indications to restrict the onward travel of well passengers, but all passengers and crew should be advised to seek medical attention if they develop" symptoms, the agency said.
.
In another rare step, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention activated its emergency operations center in Atlanta, including sophisticated communications technology, to enhance its ability to coordinate information from other countries and to investigate any suspect cases in the United States.
.
The agency has used the operations center only twice before, for the mosquito-borne West Nile fever epidemic last year and the anthrax attacks in 2001. The last time it issued a global health alert was in 1993, to enhance measures to control tuberculosis. WHO officials said they could not recall the last time an emergency global travel advisory was issued.
.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating the travel histories of the passengers who are now in a German hospital as well as one of the eight cases suspected to be the new syndrome in Toronto and Vancouver that Canadian health officials reported Friday.
.
So far, laboratory scientists have not been able to identify a known or novel infectious agent, said Dr. David Heymann, a WHO official. Worldwide alert by the WHO follows 9 deaths

As a mysterious respiratory illness spread to more countries, the World Health Organization has taken the rare step of issuing a health alert, declaring the ailment "a worldwide health threat" and urging all countries to help in seeking its cause and control.
.
The agency said that in the past week it had received reports of more than 150 new suspected cases of the illness, now known as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. The syndrome has caused at least nine deaths, the latest victim a nurse in Hanoi. Some victims have recovered, but no one has done so in the past two weeks. The ailment apparently does not respond to anti-viral and antibiotic drugs.
.
Reported cases have come from Canada and six countries in Asia - Hong Kong and elsewhere in China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam - the health organization said.
.
There have been no reports of the illness in the United States, but on Saturday a sick passenger and two companions who traveled from New York City were removed from a flight after it arrived in Frankfurt and put in isolation in a German hospital.
.
On Sunday, doctors at the hospital were monitoring the condition of the male passenger, his wife and another traveling companion.
.
The 32-year-old man showed symptoms of pneumonia and was being treated with antibiotics, Dr. Hanns-Reinhardt Brodt said at a news conference, The Associated Press reported.
.
X-rays and laboratory tests showed that the man - a doctor from Singapore who treated one of the earliest cases there and who was returning from a medical meeting in New York City - had "worsened slightly" overnight, Brodt said.
.
The doctor may have gone to a hospital in New York before flying back to Singapore via Frankfurt, according to the World Health Organization. Before boarding the flight, the doctor had called a colleague in Singapore to describe his symptoms, and the colleague notified WHO.
.
The cause of the ailment has not been identified. Scientists do not know whether it is a virus or even an infectious agent. Although health officials have suspected avian influenza, which has infected a small number of people sporadically in Hong Kong since 1997, laboratory tests have not detected that rare strain, known as influenza A(H5N1). As a result, laboratory scientists are focusing on the possibility of a previously unknown infectious agent.
.
U.S. health officials said Sunday that they are analyzing samples from the pneumonia-like illness and hope to have initial results from testing early this week.
.
Officials also are handing out information cards to travelers from countries where the disease has appeared, asking them to see a doctor if they experience symptoms such as high fever or respiratory problems.
.
Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a news conference that direct and sustained contact appeared to be necessary to transmit the illness from an affected individual to other people.
.
"There is no evidence to suggest that this can be spread through brief contact or assemblages of large numbers of people," she said.
.
Asked whether this might be an instance of bioterrorism, she replied, "We are keeping an open mind."
.
In its emergency advisory, issued Saturday, the WHO, an arm of the United Nations based in Geneva, said that "there is presently no indication to restrict travel to any destination."
.
But Gerberding said, "We are advising persons planning nonessential or elective travel to affected areas that they may wish to postpone their trip until further notice."
.
Updated information will be posted on the centers' Web site, www.cdc.gov/travel.
.
WHO and U.S. officials urged all travelers to be aware of the main signs of the ailment. In addition to breathing problems, the illness can cause a dry cough and other flulike symptoms that apparently develop about two to seven days after exposure.
.
Those symptoms usually appear as a sudden onset of high fever and go on to include muscle aches, headache, sore throat and shortness of breath. Standard laboratory tests often show low numbers of white blood cells and platelets, which help blood to clot.
.
WHO said that any passenger or airline crew member who developed such symptoms should immediately seek medical attention and ensure that information about their recent travel is passed on to the health care staff.
.
"Any traveler who develops these symptoms is advised not to undertake further travel until they have recovered," the agency said. If a passenger became ill on a flight, the agency asked the airline to alert the airport of destination and to refer any ill passengers to airport health officials.
.
"There are currently no indications to restrict the onward travel of well passengers, but all passengers and crew should be advised to seek medical attention if they develop" symptoms, the agency said.
.
In another rare step, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention activated its emergency operations center in Atlanta, including sophisticated communications technology, to enhance its ability to coordinate information from other countries and to investigate any suspect cases in the United States.
.
The agency has used the operations center only twice before, for the mosquito-borne West Nile fever epidemic last year and the anthrax attacks in 2001. The last time it issued a global health alert was in 1993, to enhance measures to control tuberculosis. WHO officials said they could not recall the last time an emergency global travel advisory was issued.
.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating the travel histories of the passengers who are now in a German hospital as well as one of the eight cases suspected to be the new syndrome in Toronto and Vancouver that Canadian health officials reported Friday.
.
So far, laboratory scientists have not been able to identify a known or novel infectious agent, said Dr. David Heymann, a WHO official. Worldwide alert by the WHO follows 9 deaths

As a mysterious respiratory illness spread to more countries, the World Health Organization has taken the rare step of issuing a health alert, declaring the ailment "a worldwide health threat" and urging all countries to help in seeking its cause and control.
.
The agency said that in the past week it had received reports of more than 150 new suspected cases of the illness, now known as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. The syndrome has caused at least nine deaths, the latest victim a nurse in Hanoi. Some victims have recovered, but no one has done so in the past two weeks. The ailment apparently does not respond to anti-viral and antibiotic drugs.
.
Reported cases have come from Canada and six countries in Asia - Hong Kong and elsewhere in China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam - the health organization said.
.
There have been no reports of the illness in the United States, but on Saturday a sick passenger and two companions who traveled from New York City were removed from a flight after it arrived in Frankfurt and put in isolation in a German hospital.
.
On Sunday, doctors at the hospital were monitoring the condition of the male passenger, his wife and another traveling companion.
.
The 32-year-old man showed symptoms of pneumonia and was being treated with antibiotics, Dr. Hanns-Reinhardt Brodt said at a news conference, The Associated Press reported.
.
X-rays and laboratory tests showed that the man - a doctor from Singapore who treated one of the earliest cases there and who was returning from a medical meeting in New York City - had "worsened slightly" overnight, Brodt said.
.
The doctor may have gone to a hospital in New York before flying back to Singapore via Frankfurt, according to the World Health Organization. Before boarding the flight, the doctor had called a colleague in Singapore to describe his symptoms, and the colleague notified WHO.
.
The cause of the ailment has not been identified. Scientists do not know whether it is a virus or even an infectious agent. Although health officials have suspected avian influenza, which has infected a small number of people sporadically in Hong Kong since 1997, laboratory tests have not detected that rare strain, known as influenza A(H5N1). As a result, laboratory scientists are focusing on the possibility of a previously unknown infectious agent.
.
U.S. health officials said Sunday that they are analyzing samples from the pneumonia-like illness and hope to have initial results from testing early this week.
.
Officials also are handing out information cards to travelers from countries where the disease has appeared, asking them to see a doctor if they experience symptoms such as high fever or respiratory problems.
.
Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a news conference that direct and sustained contact appeared to be necessary to transmit the illness from an affected individual to other people.
.
"There is no evidence to suggest that this can be spread through brief contact or assemblages of large numbers of people," she said.
.
Asked whether this might be an instance of bioterrorism, she replied, "We are keeping an open mind."
.
In its emergency advisory, issued Saturday, the WHO, an arm of the United Nations based in Geneva, said that "there is presently no indication to restrict travel to any destination."
.
But Gerberding said, "We are advising persons planning nonessential or elective travel to affected areas that they may wish to postpone their trip until further notice."
.
Updated information will be posted on the centers' Web site, www.cdc.gov/travel.
.
WHO and U.S. officials urged all travelers to be aware of the main signs of the ailment. In addition to breathing problems, the illness can cause a dry cough and other flulike symptoms that apparently develop about two to seven days after exposure.
.
Those symptoms usually appear as a sudden onset of high fever and go on to include muscle aches, headache, sore throat and shortness of breath. Standard laboratory tests often show low numbers of white blood cells and platelets, which help blood to clot.
.
WHO said that any passenger or airline crew member who developed such symptoms should immediately seek medical attention and ensure that information about their recent travel is passed on to the health care staff.
.
"Any traveler who develops these symptoms is advised not to undertake further travel until they have recovered," the agency said. If a passenger became ill on a flight, the agency asked the airline to alert the airport of destination and to refer any ill passengers to airport health officials.
.
"There are currently no indications to restrict the onward travel of well passengers, but all passengers and crew should be advised to seek medical attention if they develop" symptoms, the agency said.
.
In another rare step, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention activated its emergency operations center in Atlanta, including sophisticated communications technology, to enhance its ability to coordinate information from other countries and to investigate any suspect cases in the United States.
.
The agency has used the operations center only twice before, for the mosquito-borne West Nile fever epidemic last year and the anthrax attacks in 2001. The last time it issued a global health alert was in 1993, to enhance measures to control tuberculosis. WHO officials said they could not recall the last time an emergency global travel advisory was issued.
.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating the travel histories of the passengers who are now in a German hospital as well as one of the eight cases suspected to be the new syndrome in Toronto and Vancouver that Canadian health officials reported Friday.
.
So far, laboratory scientists have not been able to identify a known or novel infectious agent, said Dr. David Heymann, a WHO official.