Word: isolationism
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Could the spread of SARS in Toronto have been stopped that first night? Tse spent almost 24 hours in Scarborough Grace before he was placed in isolation. Says Dr. Sandy Finkelstein, who was on call that day: "His mother had died of a respiratory illness, and his background was Asian...
She turns away scornfully and strides to the women's wing of the prison, where a number of large cells open onto a courtyard. A net of barbed wire hangs over the yard. The cells, now empty, are deceptively light and airy. "When they were full, I could only sit...
But that may only put off the inevitable. While the U.S. is better equipped than most countries to detect and contain epidemics, it's pure luck that it has not been hit harder. So far, none of the handful of people who have carried the virus to the U.S. from...
The streets of the Dual Springs neighborhood, a migrant-worker hub in northern Beijing, are deserted. That's no surprise: more than 13,000 people have been quarantined in China's capital to halt the insidious spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and even those not under house arrest...
Equally worrisome, the virus is also proving to be more tenacious than the medical community had hoped. In Hong Kong, doctors reported that, for unclear reasons, 12 recovered SARS patients had relapsed weeks after they had been discharged?spurring fears that people may be infectious even after they've left...