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...assault clearly took a toll on Ansar's militants. Politburo member Mahmood Sangarwi of the pro-American Patriotic Union of Kurdistan says 60 dead were left behind after Friday's battles. In the rocky terrain of Saturday's exchange I saw eight more slain Ansar fighters. Some had died in their bunkers; others were cut down as they fled over open ground or among relatively exposed rocky outcrops. Their corpses remained where they had fallen throughout the assault...
...high civilian death toll would play into the hands of Saddam. He presumably calculates that the U.S. could be made to quit fighting by international condemnation of the further loss of innocent life. In Baghdad, Iraqi officials claimed last week that U.S. bombs hit a marketplace and a hospital, killing 30 civilians; U.S. commanders said the damage may have been caused by falling Iraqi antiaircraft missiles...
...hard to see why it's crucial to halt the spread of SARS, and not just for health reasons. The economic toll could be devastating. Some economists predict that the hit to Hong Kong's travel and retail sectors will drag the city's 2003 GDP-growth rate down by one-fifth or more, a loss of more than $1 billion. Last week Stephen Roach, chief economist for Morgan Stanley, said SARS is "just another nail in the coffin" for the global economy, which is already stumbling from the Iraq war. He predicts a worldwide recession will begin this year...
...international health workers. China's opacity, when it has about half of the more than 2,400 reported SARS cases worldwide, is akin to taking away half of the pieces. Last Thursday, Health Minister Zhang Wenkang finally broke a four-month silence to revise the country's death toll upward to 49?a statistic many local doctors maintain is still far too low for concern. Zhang then proceeded to confidently state that "it is now safe to live, work and travel in China." Yet just one day earlier, the WHO had issued its health advisory warning against travel to southern...
...virus can also be devastating, as was in the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918-19 (see viewpoint). Although that flu's mortality rate was only 2%, the virus had infected so many people that it felled 40 million victims in 18 months?more than the total death toll from combat in World War I. So far, SARS' fatality rate is 4%, comparable to normal, noncontagious pneumonia's. Optimists point out that in the three weeks that SARS has gripped Hong Kong, about 150 people in the territory have succumbed to normal pneumonia. But what spooks medical experts is how little...