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...Doctors at the Nanfang Hospital may have done all they can, but Chinese medical officials have not. World health authorities are frustrated with China's secretive officials for keeping quiet so long about an epidemic that appears to have first struck in Guangdong province back in November. After months of media blackout, Beijing now maintains that the worst has passed. Only five patients in China have died, they say, while 305 have fallen ill with atypical pneumonia?a figure that dates back to mid-February. But forays into several hospitals in the provincial capital, Guangzhou, show that at ground zero...
...skimpy two-page document. Officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) would like to send a team of experts to southern China to investigate. But although Chinese authorities finally approved visas for a WHO team last Friday, they have not yet given the team approval to visit Guangdong, nor have they indicated what medical records they will hand over. "We'd like to see more case-based data?lab results, what treatment was given, what worked," says Alan Schnur, team leader of communicable-disease control in Beijing for WHO. "We might turn up something unexpected by looking at the data...
...from spreading further. After painstakingly tracing patients' histories, scientists have deduced that the disease is probably spread through direct contact with bodily fluids, such as phlegm. Here again, cooperation from Chinese authorities might have helped. As long ago as Jan. 21, an official internal advisory?issued to doctors in Guangdong and later obtained by Time?laid out how the disease appears to be transmitted. "Given that the explosion of the epidemic was mainly in the same area and some patients passed on the disease to family and doctors gathered in the hospital ward," the report states, "we think the disease...
...World Health Organization (WHO) to issue an emergency travel advisory for parts of Asia, hundreds of cases had been reported in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Singapore's Ministry of Health issued an urgent advisory warning its citizens to avoid travel to China's Guangdong province, Hanoi and Hong Kong, the first areas in which the disease surfaced, "unless absolutely necessary." Taiwan followed suit. Thailand's Health Ministry said it would require passengers embarking from those places for Thailand to undergo preboarding screening. "This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide threat," said Dr. Gro Harlem...
...John Tam, a medical-virology expert at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, says, "There's no evidence of how this began or where it came from. We really have no idea what this is, no theories whatsoever." The outbreak may have started this winter when 305 people in Guangdong were infected with atypical pneumonia; five of them died. Then, early this month, an American businessman who'd traveled to Hanoi from Shanghai via Hong Kong was admitted to a Hanoi hospital with a similar affliction. His case sparked further concern when he was airlifted to Hong Kong and scores...