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...China continues to massively underreport its SARS epidemic. As late as last Saturday, China's health authorities continued to stick to an accounting of 60 SARS deaths and about 1,300 cases--even though China's Premier Wen Jiabao visited You'an Hospital, where medical staff say the full caseload there has not been incorporated into the figures...
...visited. At the People's Liberation Army No. 302 Hospital, where two infectious wards had previously been filled to capacity, only a handful of patients remained in their beds while WHO team members met with hospital officials. Throughout the week, Beijing authorities continued to report the city's SARS caseload at 37, even though a doctor who used to treat top Communist Party cadres told TIME that an internal Ministry of Health report put the number of confirmed patients at 200 to 300 cases. Says one doctor at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital: "I can't tell you any details...
...suffer from some kind of personality disorder, and as many as 20% of all mental-health hospitalizations may be the result of such conditions. Epidemiologists have not done a very good job of comparing these figures with those of earlier years, but many doctors report--anecdotally--that their PD caseload is indeed on the rise. "The more severe ones are increasing," says Josephs, "especially among people who grew up in homes with divorce or drug and alcohol problems...
...prognosis is worst for residents of Caribbean nations and of sub-Saharan Africa, including Botswana, which has the world's highest caseload. But rates of infection are also on the rise in Russia and China, both of which are predicted to become the next hot spots of the disease. Earlier this month, 15 Caribbean nations agreed to purchase desperately needed AIDS drugs from major pharmaceutical companies - at discounts of up to 90 percent. The companies, including Abbot Laboratories, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck decided it was more expedient to strike a deal with the Caribbean as a region, rather than...
...Anthony LaPaglia plays him in Lantana, police detective Leon Zat is as harsh and abrupt as his surname. He is several things: a tough, angry cop, impatient with a dismal caseload; a middle-aged man, jogging through his chest pains, trying to get back in shape; an unhappy husband glumly trying to find some magic in an affair that's all grim haste and guilty furtiveness...