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While the University ban was loosened over the last two weeks to allow travel to Toronto, Vietnam and Singapore, the moratorium remains in effect for mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan...
...University lifted its SARS-related moratorium on travel to Singapore yesterday following the advice of the Center for Disease Control, according to the University’s website. The decision comes almost a week after the University called off its travel ban to Toronto, Canada, on the recommendation of the World Health Organization. The University originally banned travel to these areas last month as cases of SARS spread around the world. The moratorium on travel to China, including Hong Kong, and Taiwan remains in place...
...unchecked epidemic on the mainland is a nightmarish prospect. Vietnam, Hong Kong and Toronto have, to varying degrees, reined in their SARS outbreaks, and life is slowly returning to normal there. But the disease still rages in the world's most populous country, posing not just a health threat but also a hazard to the economy and social stability. Containing the epidemic is just one of the government's challenges. Another is modulating public perception of how well its leaders are handling the fight against SARS. The stage is set for a massive political realignment, with the fate of China...
...What's more, those most at risk were typically the elderly and the chronically ill. But as the cases have piled up, so have the fatalities, including healthier individuals in their late 20s or early 30s. In Vietnam the death rate is around 8%, Singapore at nearly 12% and Toronto 13.5%. In Hong Kong, where baffled health officials held onto the 5% figure like a life preserver for weeks, the mortality rate has now passed 10%, with a cumulative total of 179 fatalities by the end of last week. "This is very worrying," says Professor John Tam, a microbiologist...
...looking bad. But if SARS is eventually defeated, last week may be remembered as the beginning of the end. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the SARS outbreak contained in Vietnam, one of the first countries to be invaded by the virus, and it lifted the travel advisory on Toronto. Meanwhile, Singapore and Hong Kong have brought their rates of new infections down to levels that many residents view as acceptable. "Our hope is that we can drive this disease out of the human population and back into nature," says Dr. David Heymann, the WHO's executive director for communicable...