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...Late last week, WHO and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent epidemiologists, pathologists and infection-control specialists to Hanoi and Hong Kong. But for now, regional health-care professionals remain baffled by SARS. Dr. John Tam, a medical-virology expert at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, says, "There's no evidence of how this began or where it came from. We really have no idea what this is, no theories whatsoever." The outbreak may have started this winter when 305 people in Guangdong were infected with atypical pneumonia; five of them died. Then, early this month...
...DIED. ROMAN TAM, 52, Hong Kong pop icon whose crooning formed the soundtrack to the city's entertainment golden age of the 1970s; of liver cancer; in Hong Kong. The flamboyant star took advantage of his mainstream popularity to shake up the city's conservative show business world, performing in drag and posing nude for a local magazine...
...Tam said protesters hope to use the Abercrombie incident to prevent such an occurrence from happening again...
...greater goal is to make an example out of Abercrombie, so that other companies take measures to produce responsible clothing,” Tam said...
...protesters responded by booing the employee and the organizers of the protest called Abercrombie and reported the incident, Tam said...