Chinese Villages Build Barricades to Try to Stop SARS

The New York Times ^ | April 27, 2003 | ERIK ECKHOLM

[aristeides]

Interesting article in the Sunday Washington Post about the political background of Red China's SARS decisions: China's Crisis Has A Political Edge Leaders Use SARS to Challenge Recalcitrant Parts of Government .

[Dog Gone]

That's a good point, but even the Times of India is just now reporting that he said the SARS situation in China is not a matter of concern.

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[EternalHope]

If SARS operates like the SDA coronavirus in rats, it breaks down the immune system, leaving the victim open to secondary infections. In SDA, those are principally forms of pneumonia. SARS may do the same.

One of the early posts from Mother Abigail said exactly the same thing.

[Prince Charles]

When bureaucrats start spewing like this, it usually means there's large sums of money involved. Probably a ChiCom weapons sale.

[Dog Gone]

Nope, no problem in China...

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 BREAKING NEWS

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Beijing puts 8000 in quarantine

28apr03

ALMOST 8000 people had been quarantined in the Chinese capital Beijing after having close contact with SARS patients, state media reported.

As of 10:00am (1200 AEST) Sunday, a total of 7672 people had been quarantined while 1384 people had been discharged from quarantine, the Xinhua news agency reported.

It said quarantine measures were in place at a residential quarter of Renmin Hospital, a residential building of the Central University of Finance and Economics, three dormitory buildings in the Northern Jiaotong University and two dormitory buildings in Beijing Science and Technology Research Institute.

A construction site in Beijing's Dongcheng district was also isolated

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[Paul C. Jesup]

If you have figured it by now, we're living in a comedy/drama/cyberpunk/sci-fi 'Twilight Zone' like series.

Anyway, I don't SARS will take down China's Government, their own paranoia about SARS is doing the job for them. They are becoming completely unglued.

[Domestic Church]

This is just the beginning. When SARS starts hitting the "center" members the real black market $$$ shenanigans will start.

Meanwhile in Canada 5 nurses quit over SARS.

[Judith Anne]

Five Canadian nurses quit over SARS?

[InShanghai]

I received this via e-mail today.

To American Citizens in the U. S. Consulate General Shanghai's Consular District...

At this time, the United States Centers for Disease Control guidelines state that persons returning from one of the affected areas should monitor their health for ten days.

Should a person have been exposed to a SARS patient, the CDC guidelines continue:

Persons who may have been exposed to SARS and who develop fever or respiratory symptoms should limit interactions outside the home and should not go to work, school, out-of-home child care, or other public areas until ten days after resolution of fever and respiratory symptoms. During this time, infection control precautions should be used to minimize the potential for transmission. At this time, in the absence of fever or respiratory symptoms, persons who may have been exposed to SARS patients need not limit their activities outside the home and should not be excluded from school or work.

On the basis of these guidelines, there is, at present, no requirement for quarantine simply on the basis that an individual is entering or returning to the United States from China.

[Ditter]

Thanks, looks like I still will be avoiding my friends daughter for a while. lol