Home>News Center>China
       
 

China batch-produces SARS reagent
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-11-23 13:31

China began to batch-produce a new gene-based reagent capable of quickly diagnosing severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) Monday.

At a news briefing, Wang Shushan, deputy director of Henan Provincial Bureau of Science and Technology, said that the reagent has been approved for production and medical purposes by the State Food and Drug Administration.

According to Wang, China holds full intellectual property rights for the new drug, which was jointly developed by Henan Provincial Bio-Engineering Technology Research Center, the Virus Diseases Prevention and Control Institute with the China Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Huamei Bio-Engineering Company.

"The reagent serves as an efficient tool to control any major public health crises," said Wang.

Wang Yunlong, a specialist who participated in the development of the reagent, said that the reagent can monitor 50 variations of the SARS virus under any condition.

Apart from clinical diagnosis and virus monitoring, the reagent can also be used to assess the effect of vaccines, clinical blood tests, surveys of epidemics, effect of medicines taken by SARS patients, according to the specialist.

The SARS reagent will hit the market soon.

China was seriously hit by an outbreak of SARS in 2003, when 5,327 SARS cases were reported on the Chinese mainland. Nearly 5,000 patients were cured and discharged from hospital, but the death toll from the disease in China stood at 349.



 
  Today's Top News     Top China News
 

Hu urges Japan to face history, not war shrine

 

   
 

Sabotage not cause of airliner crash

 

   
 

China batch-produces SARS reagent

 

   
 

Three UN hostages in Afghanistan freed

 

   
 

China's oil imports rise to hit record high

 

   
 

EU to send China positive signal on arms ban

 

   
  Koizumi: China and Japan will never fight another war
   
  Central bank tells US not to blame others
   
  HIV/AIDS cases in Shaanxi increase sharply
   
  EU to send China positive signal on arms ban
   
  'Operation 10.14' stubs out cigar-trafficking ring
   
  Working against fake goods a priority
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  Related Stories  
   
No SARS vaccine available soon
   
Expert warns SARS odd cases
   
China issues SARS warning as winter nears
   
SARS came from S. China civet cats -- study
   
Scientists have hopes for SARS cure
   
SARS vaccine shows promising results
  News Talk  
  It is time to prepare for Beijing - 2008  
Advertisement