SARS

Doctors describe damage caused by virus

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 27th, 2003

Doctors working near the first outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Guangdong, China, have just published the first histopathological description of the effects of this viral infection.

Basing their findings on autopsies of three people who died of SARS, Dr. Yanqing Ding and his colleagues showed in the Journal of Pathology that the virus causes extensive disruption throughout the body.

The main pathological changes were in the lungs: All three victims had extensive pulmonary consolidation, significant pulmonary edema, as well as localized hemorrhage and necrosis. There was also widespread hyaline membrane formation, local...

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