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...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 to protect its most important asset: its image...
...epilink can be designated as a suspected SARS case, much less a confirmed one. And proving that epilink can be very difficult. Two of Shanghai's confirmed SARS patients, for instance, reportedly lied about having come from Beijing. Consequently, they were kept for a few days in a normal fever emergency ward, where they were not as stringently isolated as they might have been at the hospital designated for suspected SARS patients. Says a frustrated Shanghai doctor: "If someone lies about where they've been, there's no way you can screen every SARS patient with 100% accuracy...
...thin cotton mask and makeshift welder's goggles, Dr. Li Li guards China's shifting front line against the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic. The young doctor oversees a new fever ward at the medical clinic in Biange township in central China's largely rural Hebei province, and he's dangerously unprepared for an outbreak of the disease. A chronic funding shortage means his clinic lacks even enough surgical masks. Behind him, workers erect a flimsy Plexiglas shield across a hallway to create an isolation ward where one patient already lies feverish. Asked if his facility can cope with...
...enough to induce a bad case of cabin fever for Asia's office-bound workers?and there's no relief to be had through leisure travel. The suddenly germ-phobic nation of Thailand, which made headlines early in the outbreak by requiring visitors to wear masks under pain of a fine or imprisonment, now hands out "health passports" to travelers from SARS-hit regions. The government says tourists will be required to undergo medical checks every three days for the first 10 days of their stay in the country, recording the results in these passports. While it's far from...
...first phase, patients get a fever of 100.4°F or more, with chills, headache and muscle aches. Within a week, most develop a dry cough and difficulty in breathing; about 10% to 20% require a ventilator. Some also get severe diarrhea...