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...original story seemed too good to be true, those who debunked it are portrayed here as unscholarly in their methods or worse. Some of the recantations seemed to have been extorted and were later disavowed. Anyway, what does it prove if, 15 years after their supposed first contact with the outside world, the Tasaday wore Levi's? And does that mean they can never wear leaves again...
...doctor. "They said Shanghai was an exception and that was agreed to by the Ministry of Health." That means that before classifying a patient as a suspected SARS case, the Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau requires that person to have either traveled to a SARS-infected area or had known contact with a SARS patient?in addition to the classic symptoms of high fever, cough, lowered white-blood-cell count and suspicious spots on a chest X ray. The rest of China may be hewing to new regulations that don't require verification of exposure, but Shanghai has decided instead...
...Nevertheless, local bureaucrats emphasize that SARS isn't a homegrown problem, reiterating that all of Shanghai's SARS cases to date have been "imported." All 11 suspected cases have an "epilink," meaning each person either visited a SARS-infected region or had contact with a SARS patient, according to a doctor on the SARS-consultation board of Shanghai's Center for Disease Control. But that's a tautology: because local doctors are still following the old diagnostic standard, no one without an epilink can be designated as a suspected SARS case, much less a confirmed one. And proving that epilink...
...don’t think I’ll be able to do [all the responsibilities] in the same way Lewis does,” Gross says. “I will have to delegate. Personal contact is essential for establishing a level of trust, but I can’t be everywhere at once...
Burtan said she was unable to contact a teacher to cancel a meeting, and her roommates were unable to get information regarding everything from chemistry exams to biology answer keys...