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Scientists find mystery illness virus, verify diagnostic test.
2003 APR 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists are perfecting a test to diagnose a newly discovered virus believed to be responsible for the mystery illness that has sickened hundreds of people worldwide.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said March 22, 2003, that advances by the University of Hong Kong and others are bringing scientists closer to determining how to treat severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
The progress comes less than a week after the WHO pulled together the talent from 11 laboratories around the world in an unprecedented collaboration to hunt down the disease.
"We can be relatively sure that we have now found the causative agent," said Dr. Klaus Stohr, a WHO virologist who is coordinating the global laboratory network.
"It is the SARS virus. But, to which virus family it belongs, we don't know yet," he added.
Some researchers believe it is a new type of paramyxovirus, but studies from other labs suggest it may belong to another virus family.
The virus, isolated from the lung tissue of a patient who died from SARS, is the basis for the diagnostic test, which Stohr expected to be in the hands of hospital doctors in early April.
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