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SARS Spreads To China's Army
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 5-14-2003
| Richard Spencer
Posted on 05/13/2003 4:50:35 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
05/13/2003 4:50:35 PM PDT
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blam
To: aristeides; per loin; CathyRyan; Judith Anne; Prince Charles; riri
Ping.
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posted on
05/13/2003 4:51:46 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam; CathyRyan; Mother Abigail; Dog Gone; Petronski; per loin; riri; flutters; Judith Anne; ...
I thought SARS was in the PLA very early on. I wonder if this is just the Chicoms telling the WHO some very old information.
To: blam
The amazing thing about how people are looking at SARS in China is that there is an assumption that if it gets controlled in Beijing the problem in China is over. But Beijing is but one city (with a population somewhere over 12 million people). There are over 100 cities in China with a population of 1 million or more. SARS is not finished in China--not by a long shot.
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posted on
05/13/2003 4:54:06 PM PDT
by
twntaipan
(The NY Slimes: The Newspaper of Disrepute)
To: twntaipan; All
To: All
To: aristeides
China wants to appear to the world that it is being honest and open about SARS, although the motivation to understate the problem is enormous.
They will reveal as little as they think they can get away with, at least until the news is good.
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posted on
05/13/2003 4:57:07 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: All
To: blam
hope that sars wipe out the pla
To: All
To: aristeides
I say send in Hans Blix--he will declare the country free of SARS and the rest of the world will be able to sleep securely knowing this disease has been destroyed. After all, what you can't find can't hurt you.
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posted on
05/13/2003 5:00:39 PM PDT
by
freeangel
(freeangel)
To: All
To: aristeides
WHO says SARS control measures are working
I don't know. Who?
To: All
To: All
To: blam
This is rather confusing.
The number of new Sars patients in China was less than 100 yesterday, and the number of cases in Beijing less than 50 for the fourth day running. Ten people died, bringing the total to 262 in China.
So the number of new Sars cases is less, good.
But the government's promises of new openness in its "war on Sars" came into renewed question when it was left to a WHO adviser to disclose that he had discovered the outbreak in the People's Liberation Army.
Now Sars is reported in the huge Chinese Army.
Eight per cent of Beijing's 2,000 cases - about 150 to 160 people - were military personnel, Philippe Barboza said.
But the Army's cases were at least part of Beijing's outbreak of Sars, so are there any cases in the huge Chinese military outside of the ones now reported in Beijing? The headline reads, "SARS Spreads To China's Army."
One situation could be controlled, the other would be widespread throughout the country. Clarification is needed.
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posted on
05/13/2003 5:11:14 PM PDT
by
xJones
To: aristeides
1/3 of the hospitals are run by the PLA, go figure.
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posted on
05/13/2003 5:16:13 PM PDT
by
flamefront
(To the victor go the oils. No oil or oil-money for islamofascist bioweapon production.)
To: Mitchell; keri
In case you haven't been pung.
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posted on
05/13/2003 5:38:05 PM PDT
by
Allan
To: aristeides
What you maybe remembering is that civilians were moved to military hospitals early on in the Chinese sars epidemic.
To: blam
Beijing's new cases for the last five days: 48..54..42..48..48. Almost as though someone had decided that an appropriate average at this stage of their containing SARS would be 48 new cases per day.
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05/13/2003 5:43:30 PM PDT
by
per loin
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