The virus is frequently transmitted within families

The virus is frequently transmitted within families.”We eat in separate rooms We do everything separately. We only take off our face masks when each of us is in a room by ourselves. My daughters are especially careful because they don’t want me and my wife to get the disease,” the man said.Dr David Heymann, executive director for communicable diseases at the WHO, said the travellers from Hong Kong who developed Sars included tourists and business people who had visited the city since 15 March, when control measures against the disease were starting to work in other countries.In Hong Kong new infections among travellers were still occurring, the latest on 25 March, which posed a risk to the rest of the world. In addition, there was the puzzle of Amoy Gardens, where more than 100 people in one tower block have been infected, which remained unexplained and suggested some new vehicle of possibly more rapid transmission.Dr Heymann said: “We do not believe this is the air We believe it is something else in the environment. Hong Kong is the largest supplier of watches in the world.Sars has so far infected more than 2,000 people but caused just 71 deaths, raising questions as to whether it is as bad as is feared.A British journalist who arrived in Brazil from Malaysia via Singapore to cover this weekend’s Formula One Brazilian Grand Prix was under medical observation yesterday after displaying symptoms consistent with Sars.. Teeth marks found on the bones of dinosaurs have confirmed that some of them were cannibals.

Smaller grooves in the bones also matched the sharp serrations on the dinosaur’s blade-like teeth.”We examined the jaws and teeth of other known meat-eaters in the Malagasy fauna, including a much smaller carnivorous dinosaur and two large crocodiles,” Dr Rogers said. None matched the description.”We have the smoking gun in the form of diagnostic tooth marks and we can definitely rule out all of the other carnivores known to have been on the scene. These tooth-marked bones are a ’snapshot’ of a day in the life and death of Majungatholus,” he added.”Cannibalism as a feeding strategy is very common in the animal kingdom today,” said Dr Rogers It is often carried out in times of extreme hardship. It is not known whether Majungatholus merely scavenged on its dead cousins or actively hunted smaller members of its own species.”It appears that Majungatholus atopus exploited all available resources during stressful episodes,” Dr Rogers said.. World Health Organisation investigators arrived in southern China today to search for the origin of the mystery severe acute respiratory syndrome, which has killed at least 78 people, including 46 in China. WHO investigators say they want to study how patients might have contracted SARS and what Chinese doctors learned from treating it.They wore no protective masks either on the plane or when they arrived.James H. Maguire, an epidemiologist from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the researchers would confer with Guangdong authorities to work out a plan of where to and whom to meet.

“We’re going to start immediately,” Maguire said.The CDC director, Dr. Julie Gerberding, said that experts also want to know whether SARS is still being spread in China.China’s move toward appearing more open came after mounting foreign criticism of its reluctance to release information.At least 78 people have died in Asia and Canada and more than 2,200 have been taken ill in more than a dozen countries, according to WHO. No cure has been found, and scientists have not confirmed which virus causes it.The Geneva-based WHO has advised travellers not to go to Hong Kong and Guangdong. CDC recommended postponing nonessential trips to China, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi.But such warnings haven’t been publicized in China, where a half-dozen Beijing residents interviewed Thursday said they weren’t worried.Of the 12 newly disclosed deaths in China, nine were in Guangdong and the others were in the Guangxi region to its west. WHO officials said the newly reported cases were from February and March, suggesting they did not necessarily signify the outbreak was worsening.The only full account of the newly released statistics appeared in the China Daily, an English-language newspaper aimed at foreign readers rather than the Chinese public.At Beijing’s major hospital for foreigners, measures were growing more stringent. Where last week only boxes of masks and posted warnings greeted visitors to Beijing United Family Hospital, on Thursday morning masked nurses accosted all visitor to question them about symptoms.. Arena Leisure expects a massive increase in revenues from its horse racing TV joint venture after the business racked up large losses last year.

That pushed the group to a loss of £6.9m for 2002, despite a sharp rise in profits at the courses it owns.Arena also announced plans for Europe’s first “racino” – which will see a casino built at its Wolverhampton racecourse, in partnership with Gala. This would see customers combining a race outing with a visit to the casino, due to open at the end of next year. There is also a hotel at the course.Ian Penrose, group managing director of Arena, said: “This ground-breaking venture will develop Wolverhampton racecourse into a more broadly-based leisure and gaming location. As Wolverhampton is the only UK racecourse with an all-weather track, floodlit racing and hotel, we are confident that the addition of a casino next year will make it an even more compelling proposition.”Arena said it may develop the same attraction at some of its other courses, once the laws are relaxed on the location of casinos, expected by early 2005. Wolverhampton can go ahead now because it is deemed a city-centre location.Group operating profits came in at £4.0m, compared with a loss of £1.8m in 2001. The racecourses generated profits of £5.1m, up from £2.1m in 2001, as turnover grew by £4m.