KUALA LUMPUR: The public should not be alarmed by the increase in World Health Organisation’s (WHO) estimate of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) mortality rate, a senior consultant virologist said.
Universiti Malaya’s professor of medical microbiology Prof Datuk Dr Lam Sai Kit said WHO’s new global death rate estimate of between 14% and 15%, which is double from the original estimate, was not cause for alarm because of the way mortality rates are calculated.
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