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...people who might have been exposed to Chan during his four-day visit to the city-state. Passengers sitting near Chan on the two flights were also contacted and quarantined in Hong Kong and the U.S. "Lab accidents do happen," says Dr. Richard Brown, a member of the SARS outbreak team at the WHO's office in Manila. "To some extent it's an occupational hazard." Researchers still don't know what turns some SARS patients into superspreaders, but Asia is lucky that Chan's infection appears to be an isolated case...
...post and would send, Ho hopes, a powerful message that the government is more interested in controlling the epidemic than in assigning blame. Wu was appointed Health Minister when her predecessor, with whom Ho had begun his project, was fired by the Communist Party for mishandling the SARS outbreak--denying its existence until the epidemic was out of hand. "SARS was a big kick in the pants for China," Ho says. "They were tainted by the SARS experience, and the health officials there now want to do the right things with AIDS...
...also gone to great diplomatic lengths to stifle Taiwan’s entry into international organizations such as World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations (U.N.). Their recalcitrance over WHO-entry is particularly troubling since, during the SARS outbreak this May, it was the PRC that continually suppressed reports of cases and refused to cooperate with the WHO, while Taiwan coped with the outbreak alone. PRC representatives even blocked all aid from directly reaching Taiwan, at the same time that it was contesting Taiwan’s bid for observer status on the grounds that it already...
...much to learn from the Israelis in the dark arts of intelligence-gathering in an occupied population. Israeli intelligence maintains a substantial cadre of highly experienced Arabic-speaking operatives, priding itself on its capability to gather human intelligence as far away as Iran. There were numerous reports before the outbreak of hostilities suggesting Israeli special forces units were operating in the deserts of western Iraq, aiming to neutralize any Iraqi missiles capable of striking Israel...
...year-old son of Scott and Carrieann Williams died of respiratory failure at Poudre Valley Hospital in nearby Fort Collins. The cause of his sudden death: infection by the Type A strain of the influenza virus. Joseph is one of four Colorado children who have died in a flu outbreak that has hit the nation's Western states unusually hard and unusually early--raising concerns among some health officials that this flu season could be one of the worst in recent years...