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...transmission," says World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman Dick Thompson. "Maximum efforts in the beginning are justified." Although doctors and scientists decline to point fingers, it's increasingly clear that the Hong Kong government failed to recognize the potential threat when SARS first surfaced and downplayed its impact to avoid panic and bad publicity. As a result, the virus slipped into the general population?and the number of Hong Kong victims continues to rise steadily. There were 26, 27 and 39 new cases reported on April 3, 4 and 5, respectively, bringing the total number since the outbreak began...
...country from an infected zone to wear a surgical mask. Schools in Hong Kong will remain closed until April 21. All nonessential surgery has been postponed in Hong Kong and Toronto, so that the overburdened health-care systems can handle the costly and time-consuming treatment of SARS victims. Panic is erupting in usually placid Canada, where Chinese restaurateurs are now having to convince nervous patrons that eating moo shu pork doesn't cause the disease and local radio shows are fielding calls asking whether Caucasians are immune to the virus. (Of course...
...worried should I be? While the appearance of any new infectious disease is cause for concern, there is no need to panic - especially in Europe. Of the 20 or so people in Europe suspected of having SARS, all have either recently traveled to Asia or come into direct, face-to-face contact with a SARS patient...
...have enough ambiguities in it to mean all things to all men. The French insist that they understood the resolution allowed some time for inspections to work. "Maybe six months, maybe 12, maybe 18," says a top aide to French President Jacques Chirac. By December, Paris was starting to panic. The Americans, says the aide to Chirac, were saying, "We're putting Saddam to a test that he's certain to fail. In a few weeks, we'll have a green light for a military attack." Every time Saddam did something--accept the weapons inspectors back, provide a report...
...Franks while wearing their gas masks. The haphazard nature of Iraq's response convinced Pentagon officials that the U.S. strike had succeeded in creating a power vacuum inside the Iraqi military command, cutting links between Baghdad and its forces in the field. But the possibility that those forces would panic, firing off more weapons and sabotaging southern oil fields, persuaded the U.S. commanders to begin the ground war on Thursday, 24 hours ahead of schedule...