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...propaganda, judging by the thousands of flyers they handed out in Basra. These flyers depict two cartoon characters—one British and the other Iraqi—shaking hands vigorously. The text reads, “This time we won’t abandon you. Be patient, together we will win.” Again, a sincere message ruined by a simplistic and patronizing presentation...
...scene, Chung plays the teacher’s pet in a medical class, responding confidently and astutely to her teacher’s question: “This type of patient has a common characteristic,” she declares. “There is a definite difference.” Interestingly, the advertisement chose to draw attention away from Chung’s anthropology concentration and toward her pre-med status...
...puzzling killer. Doctors emerged from their labs to announce they had identified the likely pathogen that causes SARS: a mutation of the coronavirus that normally causes nothing more harmful than the common cold. Researchers averred that while the disease was contagious, it chiefly required close contact with an infected patient to be spread, most likely through respiratory droplets sprayed into the air by a cough or sneeze. Finally, quarantines were instituted in Singapore, Canada and, after much dithering, in Hong Kong, leading to predictions that the disease might be fenced in. For a few promising days, no new cases were...
...data to international health experts is particularly worrisome given that it only takes one infected individual to spark an explosive outbreak. For some reason, certain people?dubbed superspreaders?seem to pass a virus on with brutal efficiency, as happens with some tuberculosis sufferers. One SARS superspreader, who was a patient at Hong Kong's Prince of Wales Hospital, ended up directly infecting more than 90 people in the territory; in Vietnam, another individual was so contagious that he had passed the virus on to at least 30 health-care workers. Medical experts fear another such virus bomb could detonate somewhere...
...contaminated common objects in the block, which could have then infected residents. Investigators are also exploring the possibility that the virus could be spread by household pets, either through infection?one cat in Block E tested positive for the coronavirus?or through indirect contact. On March 24, the kidney patient's brother and his wife were diagnosed with SARS; three days later, families living in apartments five floors directly above and below the brother's apartment had also developed the potentially deadly pneumonia. Investigators speculate that Hong Kong's high-rises, with their sealed windows and often leaky sewage pipes...