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...This ring-fence approach, isolating suspected victims and painstakingly retracing their steps in the days before they fell ill, "showed us that infection control works," says Dr. Balaji Sadasivan, Singapore's Minister of State for Health and the Environment. It paid another dividend: authorities got an early warning that most victims were getting sick after visiting hospitals with known SARS patients. "The moment we realized hospitals were the most dangerous place, we designated Tan Tock Seng [Hospital] as a SARS-only hospital and shut it down to all other patients," says Sadasivan...
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