Peter and I had an almost surreal academic discussion about why I was doing so poorly
despite a paucity of objective findings to explain the deterioration in my condition. We …

On this eventful day, TTSH was declared a designated SARS hospital. We are used to such
things. Previous names included TB Hospital, Chest Hospital and AIDS Hospital. And during …

No two cases of SARS are exactly the same. Depending on the age and fitness of the
patient, the disease can run wildly different courses. Even the symptoms of fever and dry …

In the last 20 years, new and reemerging pathogens have appeared at alarming rates,
garnering considerable attention from the scientific and public health communities and the …

As I write this editorial, it is reaching the second anniversary of the day that an alert
infectious disease physician notified the Ministry of Health about three women who had …

In November 2002, cases of a life-threatening respiratory disease of unknown cause were
reported from Guangdong Province, China, followed in early 2003 by reports from Vietnam …

We have continued to follow the patients described in our article1 after their discharge from
the SARS unit. They have undergone chest radiography, pulmonary function testing, chest …

Most of Canada viewed the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic from a
distance. Not that those of us outside Toronto were uninvolved–global and national …

Huang Yong, who also works in the Beijing bureau, visited another hospital and discovered
more than 100 SARS patients who weren't supposed to be there. Two weeks ago, he and …

The quest to understand SARS starts in the lungs of victims like Dr. Henry Likyuen Chan, 34,
who contracted the illness in the Hong Kong hospital where he works. Chan's first few days …