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SARS Patients' Serum Helps Cure of Virus
A serum drawn from the blood of recovered SARS victims has cured more than 10 patients who failed to respond to standard anti-viral treatment, local media reported here Wednesday.

The findings from the Prince of Wales Hospital are based on the first batch of 20 patients who were given the serum. These patients had initially received the standard treatment adopted by the Hospital Authority to deal with SARS, but showed no progress.

More than half of the patients in the study have recovered and been discharged, according to Gregory Cheng, associate professor of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The rest showed no significant improvement and remained in hospital.

Cheng said the new treatment had not shown any side-effects so far and would be more effective if used on patients in the earlierstage of SARS.

Official data shows about one in 10 SARS patients does not respond to the standard anti-viral treatment of the combination ofRibavirin and steroids.

(Xinhua News Agency May 7, 2003)

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