Word: containers
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...Wednesday, in the most aggressive attempt yet to contain the epidemic, Beijing officials ordered the quarantine of all offices, hotels, restaurants and residential buildings that may have been visited by infected individuals. At Peking University's People's Hospital, the quarantine orders left some 2,000 healthworkers and patients isolated and at the mercy of the rampaging virus. At least 70 doctors and nurses and 20 patients at the hospital were already carrying the disease. In an effort to prevent the disease from spreading, Beijing has begun touting a soon-to-be-finished facility dedicated to SARS victims; wards...
...doesn't have much time. Some China watchers predict that former President Jiang Zemin, who continues to exert influence over the party, will try to shove Hu aside if the government fails to contain the epidemic and China's economy stumbles. There's little cause for optimism on either count. Citigroup economists have lowered the projected growth rate of China's economy this year from 7.6% to 6.5% as a result of the SARS scare. Meanwhile, the virus is picking up steam in the impoverished hinterlands, where public awareness of the risks of SARS is limited and hospitals lack...
...modern medical system, has experienced about as many deaths as have been reported in the rest of China put together. And only a few hours' drive from Buffalo, N.Y., or Detroit, just across the Canadian border, a Western city that thought it had done just about everything possible to contain its outbreak keeps losing ground. A few weeks ago, Toronto believed that the epidemic was winding down. Now, with 20 deaths, it's the first place outside Asia to be put on a do-not-visit list issued by the World Health Organization (WHO)--a public humiliation that infuriated Toronto...
...that may only put off the inevitable. While the U.S. is better equipped than most countries to detect and contain epidemics, it's pure luck that it has not been hit harder. So far, none of the handful of people who have carried the virus to the U.S. from Asia have been superspreaders. And health-care workers in the U.S. have not yet made any of the mistakes that tripped up the Canadians: a patient transferred from an affected hospital to an unaffected one, lax enforcement of isolation orders, hospital workers who may not have been vigilant enough with protective...
...techniques. If tea is in fact an immune booster, you would expect all three varieties to be equally effective since they are all broken down by the body into molecules that mimic bacterial proteins. There are differences, however, in the types and amounts of disease-preventing antioxidants various teas contain. Green tea has more of the chemically simpler antioxidants called catechins, whereas black tea contains more complex antioxidants called theaflavins and thearubigins. Chemically, oolong tea is a bit of a mix of the other two. Doctors still don't know whether one type of tea is better for some conditions...