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...Taiwan: SARS Island...
...Taiwan: SARS Island...
...received a phone call on April 22 from a friend, a local health-care official, warning him that Taipei Municipal Hoping Hospital was covering up an outbreak of SARS among its patients and medical staff. Chen dispatched investigators from Taiwan's Center for Disease Control (CDC); within hours, the island's most serious cluster of infections since SARS first appeared here in March was exposed. The hospital was quarantined within two days and, 14 days later, shut down entirely?but not before 120 people caught the disease, 20 of whom have since died. "This is the medical equivalent...
...clear why the virus has suddenly taken hold, there are clues. Until recently, 80% of Taiwan's SARS victims contracted the disease abroad. Many were Taiwanese businessmen returning home from mainland China. But nine out of 10 of the newest casualties have been infected through contacts within the island's well-regarded medical facilities, suggesting that, despite quarantine rules and other anti-SARS measures, health-care workers let down their guard, resulting in the first significant spread of the disease on the island...
...eight hospitals have reported possible transmissions inside their wards; two Taipei hospitals, including Hoping, were closed. At a hospital in Taiwan's second largest metropolis, the southern city of Kaohsiung, authorities were considering quarantine measures after five people came down with SARS. Most alarming was an outbreak at the island's most prestigious medical research facility, the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTU), a regional leader in SARS treatment. The hospital has reported 10 confirmed cases of hospital transmission since May 10, of which six are medical staff, and closed its emergency room on May 12. That rocked the confidence...