SARS 病毒發現者能得 Nobel Prize 嗎？

感謝中國政府的嚴格控製， SARS 病毒沒有全球傳開來， 好像國內2002/2003年有近上千人死於 SARS 病毒感染。 如果闡明HIV引起AIDS， H. pylori 導致胃潰瘍及胃癌， 那發現SARS 病毒者也可能獲獎。 隻是SARS 病毒的Impact少（小）一寫 （死的人多了反而能得獎？It's not logical, but may be true)。發現SARS 病毒的有中國人嗎？我記得有大陸和Hong Kong的科學家。 可是 Wikipedia 引用的全都是美加的科學家。Chinese （廣東） was definitely the first discoverer of the infectious disease, but who first determined the cause of the disease? Who obtained and published the viral sequence first? Who used the purified infectious agent to infect animals to prove the disease? The answers to these questions will decide who will be the recipient of a future Nobel Prize winner if there is one.

 

SARS coronavirus

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Coronavirus
Virus classification
Group:	Group IV ((+)ssRNA)
Order:	Nidovirales
Family:	Coronaviridae
Genus:	Coronavirus
Species:	SARS coronavirus

The SARS coronavirus, sometimes shortened to SARS-CoV, is the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).^[1] On April 16, 2003, following the outbreak of SARS in Asia and secondary cases elsewhere in the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a press release stating that the coronavirus identified by a number of laboratories was the official cause of SARS. Samples of the virus are being held in laboratories in New York, San Francisco, Manila, Hong Kong, and Toronto.

On April 12, 2003, scientists working at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia finished mapping the genetic sequence of a coronavirus believed to be linked to SARS. The team was led by Dr. Marco Marra and worked in collaboration with the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba, using samples from infected patients in Toronto.The map, hailed by the WHO as an important step forward in fightingSARS, is shared with scientists worldwide via the GSC website (seebelow).

Dr. Donald Low of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto described the discovery as having been made with "unprecedented speed."^[2]

The sequence of the SARS coronavirus has since been confirmed by other independent groups.

References

• J S M Peiris et al. (5 April 2003). "Coronavirus as a possible cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome" (PDF). The Lancet 361 (9364). http://image.thelancet.com/extras/03art3477web.pdf. 

• Paul A. Rota et al. (30 May 2003). "Characterization of a Novel Coronavirus Associated with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome". Science 300 (5624): 1394–1399. doi:10.1126/science.1085952. PMID 12730500. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/300/5624/1394. . Published online 1 May 2003; doi:10.1126/science.1085952

• Marco A. Marra et al. (30 May 2003). "The Genome Sequence of the SARS-Associated coronavirus". Science 300 (5624): 1399–1404. doi:10.1126/science.1085953. PMID 12730501. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/300/5624/1399. . Published online 1 May 2003; doi:10.1126/science.1085953

• Snijder EJ et al. (29 August 2003). "Uniqueand conserved features of genome and proteome of SARS-coronavirus, anearly split-off from the coronavirus group 2 lineage". J Mol Biol 331 (5): 991–1004. doi:10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00865-9. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12927536.