SARS
Doctors describe damage caused by virus
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, July 22nd, 2003
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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