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SARS: events being cancelled/business hurt (pg. 2)
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| corsten_addict |
| I am Chinese myself but I can't help but avoid places like Pac Mall or any place in Richmond Hill. I normally don't hang out there anyway but it's just a part of my fear, in the subconscious. Although I've noticed myself not touching the surface of any public transport vehicle nor do I go near anyone who looks/sounds remotely sick. |
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| DJOS2 |
Have the crowds at Viva been effected by this?
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| Fir3start3r |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trance Outlaw
AIDS was also brought over by some other than who it was blamed on......:rolleyes: |
Lemmie guess....monkeys? :rolleyes: |
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| dEsidEL |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJOS2
Have the crowds at Viva been effected by this?
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not from what i've heard thus far.. |
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| Tudo Beleza |
SARS in Canada
China syndrome
Apr 10th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Canada's largest city hopes that quarantine will work
IN THE past month, more than 230 people in Canada may have contracted Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and ten have died from the pneumonia-like disease. That makes Canada's the worst outbreak of the disease anywhere outside Asia—and it has thrown the health services in Toronto, where most of the cases have occurred, into turmoil.
The outbreak began when a Toronto resident returned home from Hong Kong carrying the infection. It quickly spread to her family, to the hospital where they were treated, and then to another. Health workers were themselves infected. Michael Silverman, an infectious-disease specialist in the city, says that many of his colleagues have been in quarantine, unable to work, after attending a meeting where a doctor who later developed the disease was present.
The two affected hospitals were temporarily closed, and the rest placed on high alert. All non-essential medical services, such as hip-replacement surgery and even HIV clinics, have been suspended. Toll-free helplines, websites and special SARS screening centres have been set up to deal with public anxiety about coughs and sneezes.
Face masks are much in demand in Toronto. Quarantine has become a city ritual. Thousands of people who visited the two affected hospitals, or had contact with a SARS victim when not wearing a mask, have been staying at home, in “voluntary isolation”, for ten days.
Health officials hope that all of this has brought the outbreak under control. So far, all those infected had either visited other affected countries, or had contact with a known SARS patient or one of the hospitals involved. Wider transmission of the disease may have been avoided. Even so, some health experts fear a further wave of victims, if it turns out that the disease can be spread by other means than close contact.
SARS has already damaged Toronto's economy. Fewer tourists are visible in the city's hotels and restaurants. Spain and Australia have issued warnings against travel to Toronto. A big American medical conference was to be held there last week; it was cancelled, depriving the city of tens of thousands of visitors. Chinese-owned shops and restaurants are empty, and Chinese-Canadians complain that they are facing discrimination. It is true that the city's Chinese residents retain close links with China and Hong Kong. But many of those infected are not of Chinese origin, having picked up the bug in hospitals.
In the United States, only 149 cases and no deaths have been recorded. So why has Toronto been hit so hard? Perhaps because it was unlucky enough to receive the first SARS case in North America. The disease spread fast before being detected, in a city caught unawares. Canadians must hope that quarantine does its job. |
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| tw1tch |
Even the yanks here in San Jose are asking me a ton of questions about SARS in Toronto because they hear about it on the news. You have a better chance at winning the lotto 6/49 then getting SARS (or equival.).
Fear is contageous. |
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| Wurm |
, I am trying to arrange a school trip for my Geography classes. The Nuclear power station is out -fine. Today I tried to get in touch with Sir Adam Beck generating station at the Falls, and I was informed that because of SARS they are no longer offering tours.
Grr. Farm trip it is.
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| Wurm |
| Wal-Mart and Harvard (talk about opposite ends of the spectrum) have cancelled and advised against travel to Toronto. |
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| Waxen |
Well listen to what I have to go through!
I am due June 9th, and if this Sars crap isn't over.. I will have to deliver on my own and will be allowed no visitors!... Then once I'm discharged from the hospital, I'll have to be quarantined for 10 days at home w/ the baby..! :whip: :whip: :whip: I've just about had it with this BS! :mad:
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| Wurm |
| What a way to put a crimp in the most life-changing event of all. Don't worry, you'll be in love with a brand new person after that, and the circumstances won't matter. |
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| Waxen |
| quote: | Originally posted by Wurm
What a way to put a crimp in the most life-changing event of all. Don't worry, you'll be in love with a brand new person after that, and the circumstances won't matter. |
You're totally right - but a woman wants a good support group with her when she's trying to push out 8 pounds! Afterwards, I'll most likely want to be alone with the baby, so it doesn't matter.
BOO SARS!!!
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| dEsidEL |
my uncle and his family have been quarantined ! :(
good thing my family hasn't come in contact with them since this thing has started.. |
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