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This is the hospital ward China's Ministry of Health doesn't want you to see. Here in the infectious-diseases section of Beijing's You'an Hospital, dozens and dozens of patients with SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) are crammed into tiny rooms. "Every single one of us in this building is a SARS patient," says a nurse named Zhang, who worked at the People's Liberation Army Hospital No. 301 until 11 days ago when she was diagnosed with the disease and admitted to You'an. "There are at least 100 SARS patients here, if not several hundred...
...TIME reporter continued through the ward, another nurse who wouldn't give her name stopped him and explained, "Look, I'm not pushing you away. I do this for your own good. It's too dangerous here. Even we who work here don't know when we'll get it. Don't believe the government. They never tell you the truth. They say it's a deadly disease with 4% mortality? Are you kidding me? The death rate is at least 25%. In this hospital alone, there are more than 10 patients dead already...
...been unmistakable. In the past seven weeks, five more people in the Czech Republic have set themselves ablaze, and three have died: Vera Jedlicková, 50, burned herself near her family plot at Brno's central cemetery on March 18, the day she checked out of a psychiatric ward where she had been treated for depression. Roman Másl, a 21-year-old student, immolated himself in Pilsen on April 1. Pavel Janícek, 42, unemployed, with a history of mental illness and suicide attempts, burned himself in Velká Chyska on April 8. His partner told police...
Denner said Pring-Wilson was attacked by Colono and another man, and pulled a pocket knife to ward off the attackers...
Denner said Pring-Wilson was attacked by Colono and another man, and pulled a knife to ward off the attackers...