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...have canceled flights in and out of China and Southeast Asia, and financial losses from reductions in tourism, retail spending and other business activity could reach billions of dollars. Schools were closed across affected regions, and last week authorities in Hong Kong forced 240 people from the hard-hit Amoy Gardens apartment complex into quarantine camps outside the city. In Canada, hospitals have closed to control the disease's spread, and health officials everywhere are looking hard at anyone who flies in from Asia and quarantining those with symptoms of infection--a fever of 100.4°F or higher, headaches...
...complaints from the residents of the Lady MacLehose Holiday Village and other decrepit resort settlements in Hong Kong are the sorts of gripes you would expect from unhappy campers. This time, though, the more than 240 occupants of these remote settlements are the evacuated residents of Block E of Amoy Gardens, a crowded Hong Kong housing estate that has become the most virulent breeding ground yet for the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak. In barely a week more than 250 residents of Amoy Gardens contracted the potentially deadly virus?nearly half of them are from Block E. On April...
...hopes that the worst might be over collapsed with the outbreak at Amoy Gardens. Clusters of cases began proliferating in the 33-floor housing estate among residents who had never met, forcing researchers to question the theory that the disease was only passed through close human contact. Investigators had to consider that other, more pernicious transmission modes might be more prevalent than first thought. Could it be spread through contact with contaminated surfaces, such as elevator buttons? Through water, possibly flowing in sewage pipes? Through rodent feces, as is the case for many other viruses? Or how about through aerosolized...
...blow to confidence, the Hong Kong government's quarantine efforts turned out to be remarkably porous. While 200 or so Block E residents were herded into isolation camps, 113 other families living in the infected building sneaked away?perhaps dispersing the disease farther. Other families from neighboring blocks in Amoy Gardens have complained that the government is still reacting too slowly and not providing adequate health monitoring. "The Department of Health isn't giving good advice," says Julianna Wong, whose father-in-law lives in Block D and was diagnosed with the disease on March 31. "Unless you're really...
...Hong Kong's health officials suspect the superspreader who may have brought SARS to Amoy Gardens is a man with a history of kidney disease. After being treated for influenza at the Prince of Wales Hospital?site of the second major cluster of SARS cases in Hong Kong after the Metropole Hotel?the man visited his brother, who lived on the 12th floor of Block E in Amoy Gardens. During his four visits to the housing complex, the man, who also suffered from diarrhea, might have spread the virus through his bodily waste. (Scientists believe the virus may be present...