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...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 took the unprecedented?for a Chinese official?step of apologizing for China's poor coordination and information sharing...
...lucky ones, though the 55-year-old woman lying in her narrow metal bed in the pneumonia ward of Guangzhou's Nanfang Hospital doesn't look it. Ye Qitian's breath comes in ragged gasps, her gray-white hair is bedraggled, and she can only open her right eye halfway as she speaks to visitors. On a rainy afternoon last week, the Chinese housewife says she is recovering from what her doctors have identified as atypical pneumonia, a mysterious disease that has plagued southern China for months and is suspected to have erupted into the outside world in late February...
...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 new victims are still falling ill and dying. One local doctor estimates that the true figure of those afflicted is probably double the official statistic. Across the country, in cities as far-flung as Nanjing and Beijing, medical staff are whispering that a strange pneumonia...
...health-care workers are unwilling to talk too openly; one Shanghai doctor reports that local hospitals were warned by municipal officials last Thursday not to speak to any media, even the state-controlled Xinhua News Agency. This muffling was mandated to quell public panic over the outbreak, says a Guangzhou journalist, whose newspaper received a gag order directly from the Central Propaganda Bureau in Beijing: "The party's biggest fear is social instability...
...fated guests on the hotel's 9th floor appear to have caught the disease from semiretired medical professor Liu Jianlun. He is believed to have been solely responsible for carrying the disease from Guangdong into Hong Kong in mid-February, after reportedly catching it while treating patients at a Guangzhou hospital. Scientists think Liu, 64, came into close contact with his fellow guests at the Metropole either while waiting for an elevator or riding from his room to the lobby. That would have put them within range of a sneeze or a cough?enough, it seems, to have turned them...