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...from what her doctors have identified as atypical pneumonia, a mysterious disease that has plagued southern China for months and is suspected to have erupted into the outside world in late February. In the space of two weeks, at least 10 victims have died and hundreds more have fallen ill in places as far afield as Hong Kong, New York, Rome and Toronto...
...secretive officials for keeping quiet so long about an epidemic that appears to have first struck in Guangdong province back in November. After months of media blackout, Beijing now maintains that the worst has passed. Only five patients in China have died, they say, while 305 have fallen ill with atypical pneumonia?a figure that dates back to mid-February. But forays into several hospitals in the provincial capital, Guangzhou, show that at ground zero new victims are still falling ill and dying. One local doctor estimates that the true figure of those afflicted is probably double the official statistic...
...That conclusion is reinforced by SARS cases outside China, which have almost all involved relatives and caregivers of the victims. One frightening exception to this pattern of transmission is the outbreak at the Metropole Hotel in Hong Kong's down-at-the-heel Mongkok district. Six ill-fated guests on the hotel's 9th floor appear to have caught the disease from semiretired medical professor Liu Jianlun. He is believed to have been solely responsible for carrying the disease from Guangdong into Hong Kong in mid-February, after reportedly catching it while treating patients at a Guangzhou hospital. Scientists think...
...unsuspecting carrier thought to have caught the virus at the Metropole was Chinese-American businessman Johnny Chen. He left Hong Kong for Hanoi on Feb. 24, quickly fell ill and was evacuated back to Hong Kong, where he became the disease's first known fatality outside China. While in Vietnam, he infected at least 61 others, many of them medical staff at the Hanoi hospital where he was treated. Another Metropole guest, an elderly tourist from Canada, carried the disease back to Toronto. There, she infected five family members, including her son, who in turn infected two others. Mother...
When a superbly competent, dedicated, well-liked dean is so summarily let go, because he has clear ideas about the well-being of the whole student, and perhaps because he is a leader as well as an administrator, it bodes ill for our university. Whatever process of reorganization of undergraduate education is now developed, it will have to be carried forward by a College staff disillusioned and unhappy about the sudden departure of the chief who brought them on board, and whose sense of mission about the College has always been contagious. Harvard College is a poorer place for Dean...