China SARS Victims Suffer Hormone Treatment Effects: Report – China News

abcnews.go.com — Thought you'd heard the last of SARS? ABCNews reports: About 300 survivors of a deadly outbreak of SARS in China in 2003 are now suffering from serious after-effects, possibly due to aggressive hormone treatment to save their lives, the Beijing News said on Friday.

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