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...ARRESTED. CAO QIANJIN, 27, Chinese water-purifier salesman, for allegedly poisoning a county reservoir with pesticides in order to boost sales of his products; in Ruyang county, Henan province, China. The state-run Xinhua News Agency reported that the poison made 64 people...
...ARRESTED. Ma Shiwen, deputy director of the Henan Center for Disease Control, for reportedly providing a non-governmental Chinese aids organization with data detailing the infection of tens of thousands of Chinese villagers with hiv during blood transfusions; in Henan province. An aids activist reported the arrest; the government has refused to comment on the case and Shiwen's colleagues say "he has just disappeared...
...residents of AIDS-stricken Wenlou village in central Henan province, China's authorities seem considerably less paternal. As many as 60% of the locals are HIV positive, infected when they sold blood under unsanitary conditions in the 1990s. Most are too poor to afford even basic medicine needed for the host of small infections the virus brings, let alone the costly antiretroviral drugs just now becoming available in Chinese cities. Victims are treated in makeshift infirmaries lacking basic medical gear...
...priority. Last week, as peasants learned that outsiders possibly exposed to the SARS virus would be quarantined in their hometowns without the locals' consent or knowledge, riots erupted in various parts of the country, from villages near the northern city of Chengde to those in the central province of Henan. The turmoil is the most extreme manifestation of a SARS paranoia fueled by a public increasingly distrustful of government propaganda and fearful that their rulers no longer have their best interests in mind. Intensifying this unease is a vigorous rumor mill that turns careless speculation into doomsday fact...
...souls left in Dual Springs, and he's had to temporarily close his pool hall because of a citywide decree to shutter all entertainment venues until May 9. "If I can't reopen then, I'll have to shut the business and leave, too," says the native of rural Henan province. He'll get out any way he can, he says, whether by squeezing onto the overflowing trains or hitching a ride from a sympathetic bus driver...