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...court on the rocks in front of the Science Center almost serenely—cap backwards with a cursive “Crimson” on his forehead, slice of pizza in his hand. He has just emerged from a lecture about the escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam War. A few feet away, prison activists have constructed a hut intended to simulate solitary confinement cells in American prisons...
Harvard’s advisory warned affiliates to refrain from traveling to China, Singapore and Vietnam, in accordance with precautions recommended by WHO and the Center for Disease Control...
...April 7, 1,263 SARS cases have been reported in China, 883 in Hong Kong, 141 in the United States, 106 in Singapore, 90 in Canada and 62 in Vietnam...
...through respiratory droplets sprayed into the air by a cough or sneeze. Finally, quarantines were instituted in Singapore, Canada and, after much dithering, in Hong Kong, leading to predictions that the disease might be fenced in. For a few promising days, no new cases were reported in Singapore and Vietnam, and the number of new infections began to decline in Hong Kong...
...some reason, certain people?dubbed superspreaders?seem to pass a virus on with brutal efficiency, as happens with some tuberculosis sufferers. One SARS superspreader, who was a patient at Hong Kong's Prince of Wales Hospital, ended up directly infecting more than 90 people in the territory; in Vietnam, another individual was so contagious that he had passed the virus on to at least 30 health-care workers. Medical experts fear another such virus bomb could detonate somewhere in mainland China, especially since a lack of transparency has kept hospitals there in the dark about how to handle the disease...