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4,000 Quarantined in Beijing as Suspected SARS Cases Climb
New York Times ^
| 4/25/2003
| Erik Eckolm
Posted on 04/25/2003 7:40:41 AM PDT by ex-Texan
4,000 Quarantined in Beijing as Suspected SARS Cases Climb
EIJING, April 25 At least 4,000 Beijing residents with exposure to a contagious respiratory disease are being kept in isolation, often in their own homes, health authorities said today, and a second major hospital was put under total quarantine, with virtually no one allowed to enter or leave.
City education officials also revealed that 300 college students who had contact with infected people suffering the dangerous new disease, known as SARS, have been sequestered in a military training camp for two weeks' observation.
As Beijing began a stringent new quarantine program to try to halt the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome, pledging to isolate virus-exposed people and contaminated buildings, reported SARS cases in the capital continued to surge for the fifth straight day.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: biggovernment; china; chinesepanic; hypochondria; hysteria; internmentcamps; mediahype; panic; sars
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posted on
04/25/2003 7:40:41 AM PDT
by
ex-Texan
To: ex-Texan
Time to go rent the movie "Outbreak" with Kevin Spacey and Dustin Hoffman and Cuba Gooding, Jr. Get a little taste of what is going down in the Middle Kingdom over Sarsmania.
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posted on
04/25/2003 7:49:20 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Kim Jong Il had ANOTHER bad underwear day . He found "decapitate" in his English-Korean dictionary.)
To: ex-Texan
Sars and rumors of Sars
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posted on
04/25/2003 7:53:40 AM PDT
by
week 71
To: ex-Texan
I don't think we have a clue about how many cases are in rural China. A vast disaster in the making, I think. India is also ripe for being hit hard as are Africa (as usual) and South America. In short, a disaster for the overpopulated countries who outbreed their ability to provide any decent medical care for themselves.
To: George W. Bush
I don't think we have a clue about how many cases are in rural China. I don't think China has a clue either and doesn't know how to handle this at all
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posted on
04/25/2003 7:57:26 AM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!)
To: AmericanInTokyo
Time to go rent the movie "Outbreak"...You mean I have to worry about this disease and watch a bad movie too.
To: AmericanInTokyo
Think I saw it years ago.
The virus is no longer merely a respiratory virus. It used to be -- hence the name: "SARS."
It was respiratory two weeks ago ... now it causes immediate degeneration of the lymph system, kidneys, spleen, liver and intestines. The victims die from a total breakdown of their immune system and drown in blood from lungs that are infested with huge rotting holes.
The virus is mutating rapidly, and there will be no quick cure because it is different today than it was yesterday. Doctors do not even agree on what type of virus is causing the problem. They have identified 9 different types of coronavirus DNA in this coronavirus. But the virus also has traits like measels and mumps which a totally another type of virus.
News was out just a few days ago: "SARS DNA decoded." But the virus has changed and is changing even now. Maybe we will all get lucky and the virus will mutate into a harmless coronavirus that is deadly only to camels. That would be just fine with me.
Hope it is loose in Iran right now killing all their camels.
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posted on
04/25/2003 7:59:57 AM PDT
by
ex-Texan
(primates capitulards toujours en quete de fromage!)
To: George W. Bush
Given the crowded living conditions and poor sanitary practices in China, my worry is that SARS is going to end up causing a couple of million deaths just in China alone. This really reflects extremely badly on the Chinese government, to say the least.
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To: George W. Bush
Where was the first outbreak of the disease, and was there only one origin or were there several?
To: Mo1
I don't think we have a clue about how many cases are in rural China. I don't think China has a clue either and doesn't know how to handle this at all
The only thing China is really good at is controlling dissent by killing protestors, imposing fear upon the population and using police-state tactics. By comparision, medicine is not one of their strongest suits.
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posted on
04/25/2003 8:01:37 AM PDT
by
jriemer
(We are a Republic not a Democracy)
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To: George W. Bush
Oh well. If it ravages China I guess we can expect some disruption to all the Wal-Mart goods. And if it runs through India, maybe all those CEO's pushing "outsourcing" will find they screwed up. On the other hand, SARS might burn out.
To: ex-Texan
OK...from all the thread about SARS, and upon researching this myself...I can only come up with the following conclusions (speculative of course):
1) The U.S. health care system can deal with, and treat Americans who come down with this disease effectively with minimal loss of life
2) Asian people seem to be less immune from this disease than Americans; more Asians are catching it and dying from it. This may have to do with the quality of health care or immune differences across races OR a combination of both (its a stretch I know)
3) China has "accidently" created and proliforated this virus as a means of subtle population control.
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posted on
04/25/2003 8:23:22 AM PDT
by
BureaucratusMaximus
(if we're not going to act like a constitutional republic...lets be the best empire we can be...)
To: BureaucratusMaximus
Perhaps ... perhaps.
The virus is still mutating. If a huge epidemic begins in Tortonto we will soon know the truth.
By the way, the you see that baseball teams are up in arms about going to Toronto to play? The Mayor of Toronto is upset because of SARS effect on the baseball season. One Scenenario: So the teams are forced to play in Toronto in front of empty seats and then contract the disease ... and take it home to their own cities.
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posted on
04/25/2003 8:34:43 AM PDT
by
ex-Texan
(primates capitulards toujours en quete de fromage!)
To: ex-Texan; Betty Jo; Mother Abigail; CathyRyan; Dog Gone; Petronski; per loin; EternalHope; ...
To: jriemer
The only thing China is really good at is controlling dissent by killing protestors That seems to be ending now. SARS is Red China's Chernobyl.
To: ex-Texan
If I were a baseball player, I would refuse to play in Toronto, and take the consequences.
To: ex-Texan
Hope it is loose in Iran right now killing all their camels. First positive thought I've had about SARS.
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posted on
04/25/2003 8:47:39 AM PDT
by
EternalHope
(Boycott everything French forever.)
To: George W. Bush
There is evidence that this disease jumped the animal-human boundry. In rural China, people are fond of keeping ducks, chickens and pigs near their homes and its quite possible that the disease has been incubating in the animal population, without regard to the number of nearby people.
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