[blam]

" Or is their goal to confuse health officials and prevent them from learning the true cause of this dreaded disease?"

These Chinese actions sure lend more credence to these suspicions.

Other than buying surgical masks, how does a family prepare?

[Judith Anne]

I don't know what to do to prepare for an epidemic. The same as for any other natural disaster? I'm prepared for a natural disaster, but living during an epidemic is not something I can imagine...