Information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies since 1927
Rome (Fides Service) – The spread of the epidemic keeps everyone in suspense. Many missionaries work every day all over the world in what are real struggles for survival and today, they too have to take into account the spread of the SARS virus awaiting a vaccination. The path is long and if the spread of SARS, as we all hope, can be restricted to a limited number of persons, it will be difficult to find someone willing to risk investment of enormous financial resources required for the production of a new vaccine, faced with an uncertain application, as Prof. Tarsitani of the La Sapienza University in Rome says in a comprehensive intervention. In response to numerous requests from these religious, Fides Service asked for a contribution from someone who lives on the frontier of research against this new frightening virus. (Fides Service 2/5/2003 EM lines 14 Words: 158)
