Guest guest Posted March 24, 2003 Report Share Posted March 24, 2003 In a message dated 3/24/03 6:07:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, jaymackley writes: > However I'll keep you posted if there are any, along with what treatments > are being used in the hospital here to deal with it. > If its as resistant as I've heard it is, then using TCM herbal formulae > might be the only treatment that is available. If someone is admitted could you please note the emotional and mental symptoms of when the disease comes on and when it progresses are there changes in the emotions and mentals. Also the concomitants like how the fever comes on perspiration and chills. .. Also any other *distinctive* symptoms that were related purely to this state, like food preferences and aversions, changes in sleep pattern, changes in subjective and objective temperature, plus the *qualities* attached to any of the symptoms -- eg. what sort of rash and where, how the fever manifests itself, the type of pain experienced with any symptom, whether symptoms are constant or variable, times when symptoms are better or worse, anything that makes symptoms better or worse, etc. These details are what distinguish one remedy state from another. Maybe if you ask around someone can already give you those symptoms. Here's some direct pt comments I know of so far: Symptoms as we know of by the WHO are: COMBINED SYMPTOMATOLOGY In addition to the breathing problems, the illness can cause a dry cough and other flu like symptoms that are thought to develop 2 to 7 days after exposure. They usually start with a sudden onset of high fever and go on to include muscle aches, headache, sore throat and shortness of breath. Standard lab tests often show low numbers of white blood cells and platelets, which help blood to clot. ---- they took me to the hospital with a 102.7 temperature and my blood pressure was 69/39. Three days in intensive care before they could keep my pressure up but had a blood infection (never identified) Pneumonia (no pathogen identifiable) ---------------- I watched five nurses come down with the same thing in two days. Pain, larangytis like symptoms, labored breathing then pneumonia, usually blood pressure problems -------------------- When you go down, you go fast and hard. It is contagious as anything I've seen -------------- When my one nurse just collapsed in the hallway after complaining that she was having trouble breathing and her heart was racing, then she walked out the door and collapsed --------------------- Unfortunately I have not had direct communication with a patient. If we could get a complete picture we could have the acupoints, herbal formulas and also the homeopathics that would be most effective in this dis-ease. I have narrowed the homeopathics to a dozen possible remedies. However the above info would help greatly. So far we suspect that there may be 3-4 remedies depending on the stage of the dis-ease are in order. Any other homeopaths out there I would like to collaborate with you. Here's what the government has put out as of yesterday: Severe acute respiratory syndrome - worldwide (17) Forty-four new cases reported since yesterday (3/22/03) with not all countries reporting.-- SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME - WORLDWIDE (17) ************************************************** A ProMED-mail post <<A HREF= " http://www.promedmail.org/ " >http://www.promedmail.org</A>> ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases <<A HREF= " http://www.isid.org/ " >http://www.isid.org</A>> In this update: [1] Worldwide update - WHO [2] Hong Kong, SAR - DOH [3] Singapore - MOH [4] USA - CDC [5] Canada - newswire ****** [1] 22 Mar 2003 ProMED-mail <promed Source: World Health Organization SARS website <<A HREF= " http://www.who.int/csr/sars/en/ " >http://www.who.int/csr/sars/en/</A>> [A] Cumulative number of reported suspect and probable cases of SARS 22 Mar 2003 <<A HREF= " http://www.who.int/csr/sarscountry/2003_03_22/en/ " >http://www.who.int/csr/\ sarscountry/2003_03_22/en/</A>> 1 Feb 2003 22 Mar 2003, 14:00 GMT+1 Country: Cumulative no. case(s) (including fatal)/ no. deaths/ local transmission Canada: 9 / 2 / yes China: + Germany: 2 / 0 / none* Hong Kong SAR China: 222 / 7** / yes Italy: 2 / 0 / none* Republic of Ireland: 1 / 0 / none* Singapore: 44 / 0 / yes Slovenia: 1 / 0 / none* Spain: 1 / 0 / none* Switzerland: 7 / 0 / to be determined Taiwan, China: 6 / 0 / yes Thailand: 4 / 0 / none* United Kingdom: 2 / 0 / none* United States: 22 / 0 / to be determined Viet Nam: 63 / 2 / yes Total: 386 / 11 +The Chinese authorities have reported suspect and probable cases in Guangdong province. Figures are being updated. * No documented secondary transmission in-country. No affected areas. **One death attributed to Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China occurred in a case medically transferred from Viet Nam. Affected areas - severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) 22 Mar 2003 <<A HREF= " http://www.who.int/csr/sarsareas/2003_03_22/en/ " >http://www.who.int/csr/sa\ rsareas/2003_03_22/en/</A>> Country: Area Canada: Toronto Singapore: Singapore China: Guangdong Province, Hong Kong SAR China, Taiwan Province Viet Nam: Hanoi An " affected area " is defined as a region at the first administrative level where the country is reporting local transmission of SARS. ****** 22 Mar 2003 ProMED-mail <promed Source: Hong Kong Department of Health <<A HREF= " http://www.info.gov.hk/dh/ap.htm " >http://www.info.gov.hk/dh/ap.htm</A>> Admission Statistics (as at 3 PM, 22 Mar 2003) A. Staff of Hospitals/Clinics (numbers in brackets are those with symptoms of pneumonia) Staff of Prince of Wales Hospital (PWH) admitted to: PWH 59 (59) PWH (private doctors) 2 (2) Kwong Wah Hospital (KWH) 3 (3) Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) 3 (3) Tseung Kwan O Hospital (TKOH) 1 (1) Staff of KWH admitted to: KWH 4 (4) One of the health workers was discharged Staff of Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital (PYNEH) admitted to: PYNEH 7 (7) Staff of Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) admitted to: QEH 5 (2) One of the health workers was discharged Staff of a Private Clinic in Mong Kok admitted to: PMH 4 (4) Tuen Mun Hospital 1 (1) Staff of a private hospital on HK Island admitted to: PYNEH 3 (3) Staff of a private hospital in Kowloon admitted to: PMH 4 (4) PYNEH 1 (1) Total 97 (94) 2 of the health workers were discharged B. Medical students (numbers in brackets are those with symptoms of pneumonia) Medical students PWH 17 (17) One of the medical students was discharged C. Other Patients (numbers in brackets are those with symptoms of pneumonia) Patients, patient's family members & visitors PWH, PMH, PYNEH, QEH, TKOH, Queen Mary Hospital & Tuen Mun Hospital 108 (106) 4 of the patients were discharged Total admissions (A + B + C) 222 (217) 7 were discharged On the other hand, 7 patients with atypical pneumonia died recently in the following public hospitals: Kwong Wah Hospital (2 patients); PMH (1); PYNEH (1); PWH (3). [The transcript of a press conference/briefing by the deputy director of health, Dr Leung Pak-yin, and the director (Professional Services and Public Affairs) of the Hospital Authority, Dr Ko Wing-man, on the latest situation of atypical pneumonia on 22 Mar 2003 is available at <<A HREF= " http://www.info.gov.hk/dh/ap.htm " >http://www.info.gov.hk/dh/ap.htm</A>>. The additional information in this briefing of note is that 9 clusters are under investigation involving the above given total of 222 patients. The mention of 9 clusters suggests that there have been 9 introductions of SARS identified in Hong Kong to date that then resulted in clusters of cases in close contacts (either medical personnel involved in their treatment, or in family members) related to these 9 cases. In addition there was mention of a death of an elderly patient with other medical conditions in addition to the presumptive diagnosis of SARS. - Mod.MPP] Archive Number 20030322.0711 Published Date 22-MAR-2003 Subject PRO/EDR> Severe acute respiratory syndrome - worldwide (16) SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME - WORLDWIDE (16) ************************************************** A ProMED-mail post <<A HREF= " http://www.promedmail.org/ " >http://www.promedmail.org</A>> ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases <<A HREF= " http://www.isid.org/ " >http://www.isid.org</A>> 22 Mar 2003 ProMED-mail <promed Source: World Health Organization SARS update 22 Mar 2003 (edited) <<A HREF= " http://www.who.int/csr/don/2003_03_22/en/ " >http://www.who.int/csr/don/2003\ _03_22/en/</A>> SARS virus isolated, new diagnostic test producing reliable results - A team of scientists in the department of microbiology, University of Hong Kong, has announced today success in culturing the viral agent that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Further progress in the development of a reliable diagnostic test was simultaneously announced by the same team. Using a special cell line, the Hong Kong scientists isolated the virus from the lung tissue of a patient who developed pneumonia following contact with a professor from Guangdong Province in southern China. Both the professor and the contact have died. Isolation of the virus now lays the solid foundation for very rapid development of a diagnostic test. The Hong Kong scientists have devised a basic test, relying on the technique of neutralizing antibodies. In today's experiments, designed to determine the accuracy of the test, scientists found that it was able to detect tell-tale antibodies in sera taken from 8 SARS patients. The consistency of these findings indicates that the test is reliably identifying cases of SARS infection. This " hand-made " test will now be further developed into a more sophisticated diagnostic test. A rapid and reliable diagnostic test for SARS is needed urgently to assist the many clinicians who need a tool for rapid confirmation of genuine cases. Such a test can also help reassure the many " worried well " who are flooding health facilities as international concern about this disease and its rapid spread to new areas continues to increase. Many common and usually self-healing illnesses mimic the symptoms of SARS in its early stage. With the virus now isolated, scientists in Hong Kong and elsewhere can move forward quickly to characterize the agent, determine its relationship with known viruses, and establish a definitive identity. Results will be shared among 11 leading laboratories in a network set up on Mon 17 Mar 2003 by WHO. The virus responsible for SARS is considered by some research groups to be a member of the well-known Paramyxoviridae family. Yesterday, Canadian researchers released findings suggesting that the metapneumovirus, which belongs to this family, may be the cause. The metapneumovirus was first discovered by Dutch scientists in June 2001 at a laboratory that is also included in the new WHO network. At the time of its discovery, the virus was known to cause respiratory disease in humans, including some cases of pneumonia, but showed a different transmission pattern and was much less severe than the SARS agent. At this point, it cannot be ruled out that an entirely different virus from another family may be responsible for the SARS outbreak. WHO cautions that the race to identify the SARS causative agent is by no means over. Although the virus has now been isolated, its identity remains elusive. Other research groups in the network of collaborating labs are producing hints that the causative agent may belong to another virus family. SARS is an emerging disease, first recognized in Asia in mid-February 2003, that has made over 380 people ill on 3 continents and caused severe pneumonia in a large proportion of patients. A cumulative list of affected countries and numbers of cases and deaths is released each day on the WHO website. Today's data indicate that slightly more than half of currently reported cases have occurred in health care workers and medical students. The remaining cases are in family members and other persons in close contact with patients. A WHO team of 5 experts is now en route to China to investigate the possibility that an outbreak of a disease having similar symptoms and affecting similar groups -- health care workers and close contacts of patients -- may be linked to the current SARS outbreak. As of today, Hong Kong remains the most seriously affected area. Authorities there have reported a total of 222 cases in health care workers, medical students, and family members and hospital visitors who have been in close contact with patients. Of these, 217 have developed symptoms of pneumonia, and many are in serious condition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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