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...Hong Kong government now reacts to public health threats like a well-oiled machine. Although authorities have identified just three people with flu-like symptoms who have traveled or have been exposed to someone who has traveled in recent days, they are on high alert. Two of the three people with respiratory ailments, a 77-year-old woman and her 4-year-old granddaughter, tested negative for H1N1. The third, a 27-year-old woman who had been to San Francisco, tested positive for a human influenza subtype, not swine flu. Rated "serious" on the government's influenza-alert scale...
...After some initial missteps that allowed SARS to spread at an almost uncontrollable rate, Hong Kong was eventually heralded for its accomplishments in helping to rid the world of SARS and, a few years later, for its quick response to multiple avian flu scares. "I always think back to during the bird flu - some wild bird drops out of the sky and is found in Hong Kong. It finishes up in a lab, being dissected," says WHO's Cordingley. "Anywhere else it would be chucked in the garbage." (See pictures of change in Hong Kong...
...covering up much of the deadly SARS outbreak. "If you have got a problem, you have to speak up," he says. So far WHO has been pleased with communication from Mexico and elsewhere, he says, adding that reporting has been "instantaneous." (See pictures of the return of bird flu...
...SARS outbreak, says Peiris, may be the simplest ones, taught by mothers the world over: wash your hands, cover your mouth when you cough and avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. The message seems to have sunk in in Hong Kong, where even on days without deadly flu threats many people wear face masks and hand-sanitizer dispensers are just about everywhere. There's no question that Hong Kong is as prepared as it can be to tackle swine flu, but for now, just like the rest of the world, it waits. "We have to wait and see whether...
...Google map depicting areas of the swine flu outbreak...