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Saturday, September 13, 2003Ninety percent of people suffering from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in China recovered naturally without using drugs, reports have cited a Chinese medical official as saying. Director of Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Zhong Nanshan, was Advertisement quoted by the Apple Daily as saying that these patients had only required "a good rest and good support" to recover, adding that no drug treatment had been needed. Of course, these are the same people who said there was no SARS, so take it with a grain of salt. And yet, the consensus seems to be that supportive care (mechanical ventilation, IV fluids, etc.) is the only treatment we have that's effective: His comments seemed to provide support for those medical experts who criticised the Hong Kong health authorities for continuing to use a mixture of the anti-viral drug Ribavirin and steroids to treat SARS patients. US experts have stated Ribavirin is not effective in tackling SARS while a recent study by Hong Kong's Chinese University also concluded the anti-viral drug was largely ineffective in treating the pneumonia-like disease. posted by Sydney on 9/13/2003 03:21:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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