SARS Virus may be Deadlier than ever

Medical researchers in the US say the SARS virus has fine-tuned itself to become more infectious than last year’s epidemic across China.

Medical researchers in the US say the SARS virus has fine-tuned itself to become more infectious than last year’s epidemic across China.Scientists at the University of Chicago say the last SARS victims had a slightly mutated form of the disease that the first patients suffered from.The research team says it is a disturbing process to watch the virus improve its infectious capability.The finding is published in the journal Science and supports the idea that the virus leapt to people from animals.SARS infected more than 8,000 people last northern winter and killed nearly 800.(Source: Reuters Health, ABC Health News, Jan 2004)