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...failing to keep SARS in check, Hong Kong is now a city full of fearful, surgical-masked citizens?and a city that is an international pariah. On April 2, the WHO issued an unprecedented advisory, warning against travel to Hong Kong and the nearby southern Chinese province of Guangdong because of the risk of contracting SARS. Airlines are slashing flights to the city as travelers stay away. Hong Kong businessmen were even barred from attending a major watch-and-luxury goods trade fair in Basel, Switzerland, unless they submitted to intrusive health checks, sparking a diplomatic row. Says Christine...
...More importantly, after more than a week of waiting, Beijing granted permission for five WHO epidemiologists to travel to Guangdong, the cradle of SARS. They're still not getting all the cooperation they say they need, such as direct access to hospitals and patients. But WHO officials say they are hopeful that by studying the outbreak at its source, they will be able to contribute to the growing body of scientific knowledge about the disease?and perhaps stop it in its tracks, for good...
...Millions more around the world are feeling trapped by this mysterious illness. More than 80 victims in nearly two dozen nations had died of SARS by the weekend, leading the World Health Organization (WHO) to issue an unprecedented warning against travel to the hardest-hit regions of Guangdong province and neighboring Hong Kong and airlines to cut flights to affected zones. Despite hope early last week that the virus might be burning out on its own, suspected new cases popped up in countries as disparate as Fiji, Israel and Brazil. Mainland China and Hong Kong each announced more deaths 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...
...maintain is still far too low for concern. Zhang then proceeded to confidently state that "it is now safe to live, work and travel in China." Yet just one day earlier, the WHO had issued its health advisory warning against travel to southern China. At ground zero itself, in Guangdong province, people seemed oblivious to the dangers because of the continuing local media blackout on the disease. Says a taxi driver in Guangzhou, the provincial capital: "Why wear a mask? This disease is a thing of the past." Li Liming, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, on Friday...