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...Equally troubling, Wang and another nurse, Lo Wen-ling, 27, claim that a more senior nurse in their intestinal-disease ward instructed them to list suspected SARS patients as suffering from "pneumonia." They say they were also ordered not to tell the patients' families that the true diagnosis was believed to be SARS. If contacted by the media, adds Lo, she was ordered to say that "there were no SARS patients in Hoping." These instructions, claims Wang, were said to have come from "high up"?meaning upper management...
...While other Chinese commercial centers from Guangzhou to Beijing have been devastated by the pneumonia-like illness, China's financial capital has so far reported only 11 suspected cases and seven confirmed ones?of the latter, two have died and one is an American who was released from hospital late last week. By contrast, in Beijing, where officials announced last week that people who intentionally spread SARS could face the death penalty, there are more than 2,400 cases, of which more than 140 have died. Maintaining Shanghai's SARS-free reputation has become an all-encompassing obsession for this...
...members of Asia's globe-trotting class, long accustomed to on-demand, hassle-free transportation, getting from point A to point B is something that can no longer be taken for granted. Travel in a time of atypical pneumonia has become a nightmare of minimal flight schedules, unsettling health checkpoints, official no-go zones and profoundly unwelcoming hosts. You thought airport security was tight after the 9/11 terror attacks? Well, it's no longer enough just to remove your shoes?now it's nearly impossible to fly without having a handheld thermometer shoved in your ear for a body-temp...
Carl A. Ikels, who spent more than half-a-century protecting the Harvard campus first as a watchman, then as a police officer and lastly as an Adams House security guard, died last Sunday, April 27, of pneumonia...
...What is SARS? According to WHO, SARS is a virus that affects the respiratory tract (lungs), causing a dry cough, shortness of breath, stiffness, fever, loss of appetite and malaise. The symptoms are very similar to those associated with the flu, except that SARS can appear as pneumonia in chest x-rays...