SARS has sent the head of another senior official wheelchair China. Yesterday, the director Li Liming Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) resigned and several officials of lower rank, after a report of an expert group showed the largest recent outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome China on a series of faults at National Institute of Virology CDC in southern Beijing.
epidemic earlier this year that sickened eight people in Beijing and in Anhui province and killed a ( science NOW, April 27), has started when two CDC laboratory workers, independently of each other, have developed SARS. The most likely source of their infection, the report concludes, is a lot of supposedly inactivated SARS virus was brought from a high containment facility in a research laboratory of the low security diarrhea where the two worked . Apparently, the inactivation process - the addition of a mixture of detergents to the virus - was not working properly, according to the study, only a summary of five paragraphs was released. In a breach of standard safety procedures, the researcher who conducted the inactivation - identified only by a surname, "Ren." - Had not tested whether the virus really was inactive, as the panel
Some scientists have welcomed the report and the resignation of Li. "This is a clear sign for Chinese scientists and the rest of the world that the Chinese government takes [biosafety] seriously, "said Guan Yi, a virologist in Hong Kong. University But others are disappointed that many details of the incident and laboratory operating procedures remain hidden." I was hoping a full account, more open to what happened, "said Tony Della-Porta, an Australian biosafety consultant who contributed to an earlier survey SARS escapes Singapore and Taiwan.
The government immediately named Wang Yu, currently deputy director of rural and social development within the Ministry of science and technology, as the new director of the CDC. A doctor and researcher trained at the medical University of China and Nihon University Tokyo, Wang has held a number of administrative positions and is a representative of a "new generation" of Chinese leaders more open and capable, says virologist David Ho of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in new York, who recently met. "I hope that the Chinese government gives enough support to put the CDC on track," said Guan
- .. LEI OF MARTIN and Enserink With reporting by Dennis Normile Tokyo related site
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