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...virus, which emerged on May 18 and was programmed by its creator to expire and stop spreading on May 31, causes no serious damage. However, it is responsible for thousands of infectious e-mails to students that are falsely labelled as originating from “support@microsoft.com...
...inability to send help, the U.S. on March 16 sent a team from its Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to liaise with the island's government health officials. The government could have relayed information about protocol to help prevent hospital transmissions, which have been commonplace wherever the virus has struck?yet hospital administrators in Taipei say they received no data. "Everything we know, we learned from the Internet," says Lee Yuan-teh, superintendent...
...Moreover, Taiwan's initially low infection rate may have had more to do with luck than sound government policy. Authorities have been slow to put in place a national action plan to combat the virus, forcing local governments and individual hospitals to improvise. Taiwan at first also refused to impose health screening at immigration checkpoints as other places have done, and its quarantine measures were more lax than those seen in affected zones such as Singapore, which has successfully contained the disease...
...strain is beginning to show on the face of Chen Chien-jen, the new Health Minister. He says he was "cautiously optimistic" a week ago that the virus could be contained within a month. Now, with a map of Taiwan in his hands that shows victims in every region of the island, he is not so sure. "I can no longer be confident it won't spread farther," he says. "I even had to admit that to my own President." Armed with that information, it may not be too much longer before President Chen, too, is seen wearing a face...
...geography?and in part because of it?Hong Kong has now become a victim of biology. The planet's most fertile breeding ground for infectious diseases is located in southern China, just across the increasingly frictionless border with Hong Kong. It's not surprising that due to the SARS virus, which probably jumped from pigs to humans in Guangdong province, Hong Kong is now faced with its most serious crisis since the 1967 riots. Can the city survive both a SARS pandemic and increased competition from a large number of new commercial centers in China? These two outside shocks will...