Experiments carried out at Erasmus University in the Netherlands have shown that a coronavirus taken from SARS patients produces SARS-like symptoms in monkeys.

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Using the secure Web sites, clinicians have been able to trade photographs and chest X-rays instantly, helping them to better understand how SARS patients deteriorate.

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Some doctors had reported positive results using ribavirin, an anti-viral medicine used mostly against hepatitis C, as a treatment for SARS patients who had been worst-hit by the disease in Hong Kong and elsewhere.

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In animals, as we've seen in SARS, some coronavirus patients die while others make a full recovery.

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Once a rough picture of the virus' genes was put together, it served as a foundation for diagnostics that can tell whether patients have SARS rather than garden-variety viral pneumonia.

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These secure Web sites have played a pivotal role in beginning to understand the coronavirus that causes SARS, and in beginning to identify which patients are at the highest risk of dying from the pneumonia.

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Some human patients have reported diarrheal symptoms in the current SARS outbreak.

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In 2003, such facilities were extremely limited, said Nelson Lee, a doctor who treated patients at the Prince of Wales Hospital when SARS struck.

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