HONG KONG: Medical experts from two countries with big SARS death tolls have questioned Hong Kong's use of a cocktail drug treatment for the disease, and one expert wondered whether it might even be harming patients.
Hong Kong says most SARS victims have shown good responses to a combination of the antiviral medicine ribavirin and steroids. But global health officials have doubts and doctors from Singapore and Canada, both hit hard by SARS outbreaks, said late on Friday they had not seen good results from those drugs.