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...Where did SARS come from?The outbreak seems to center around China's Guangdong Province, near Hong Kong. From an epidemiological standpoint, no one knows where SARS comes from, where it began, or how its first victim became infected...
...protect myself from SARS? If you live in a country (i.e. the U.S.) where no concentrated outbreak has been documented, you don't need to worry too much about contracting SARS. People who live in hard-hit areas like Hong Kong, which is adjacent to Guangdong, should follow local health officials' instructions and keep their distance from people known to be infected. Travelers should note that WHO now recommends that travel to Hong Kong or the Guangdong Province, as well as Beijing and Shanxi Province, China, and Toronto be postponed, unless the travel is "essential...
...situation in China's other provinces is not much better. In Sichuan province, which sends millions of migrant workers to Guangdong?where the disease is thought to have originated last November?an official of the local center for disease control told TIME that at least two migrant workers had died and six more were confirmed to have the disease. In a troubling precedent, a SARS-infected migrant worker who rode a long-distance bus back home to Sichuan was quarantined in the same ward with all his fellow travelers?increasing the chances they would catch the virus from...
...China's Failing Health System Travel: SARS Flightmares SARS Riots: Quarantine Blues China: SARS is 'Make or Break' Is SARS Getting Deadlier? Beating Back the Bug China: SARS Nation Guangdong: Beating SARS? Hong Kong: System Failure Shanghai SARS Cases 'Secret' Viruses: Hard to Kill Hong Kong: Keep on Scrubbing...
...China's Failing Health System Travel: SARS Flightmares SARS Riots: Quarantine Blues China: SARS is 'Make or Break' Is SARS Getting Deadlier? Beating Back the Bug China: SARS Nation Guangdong: Beating SARS? Hong Kong: System Failure Shanghai SARS Cases 'Secret' Viruses: Hard to Kill Hong Kong: Keep on Scrubbing...