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...workers erect a flimsy Plexiglas shield across a hallway to create an isolation ward where one patient already lies feverish. Asked if his facility can cope with SARS, Dr. Li shakes his head. "All we have is our hands," he says. Even those go without basic protection against the virus that causes SARS. As the pathogen migrated from big cities to provinces like Hebei, the government sent Li boxes of latex gloves?all right-handed. He forces one onto his left hand and asks, "How am I supposed to work like this...
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...with a deadly disease potentially exploding in the provinces, some of China's 800 million farmers are finally acting out, threatening the social stability that the nation's leaders have long considered their No. 1 priority. Last week, as peasants learned that outsiders possibly exposed to the SARS virus would be quarantined in their hometowns without the locals' consent or knowledge, riots erupted in various parts of the country, from villages near the northern city of Chengde to those in the central province of Henan. The turmoil is the most extreme manifestation of a SARS paranoia fueled by a public...
...among these institutions: a BSL-4 facility would allow HMS researchers to extend their present work on components of anthrax—a promising effort to derive an effective post-infection therapy—to work with the entire virus, according to HMS Associate Dean for Public Affairs Don Gibbons...