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Originally posted by CDSmith
Weird thing is.... a few weeks ago when the news on this disease was becoming heard more and more in the news, I just happen to rent all 4 instalments of Steven King's "The Stand", because I had never seen the tv series in it's entirety.
Ever since watching it, things have become more and more.... surreal.
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Yeah, it's the fucking chinese communist government that denied everything for 6 months. They pressed the panic button this weekend only. They keep telling it's ok. When a communist country admits everything is under control, I get nervous.
Worry Mounts Over SARS Spread in China's Provinces
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml...toryID=2598168
BEIJING (Reuters) - China, where the government has admitted the number of SARS cases in Beijing is far higher than disclosed previously, may be facing a very big outbreak in its provinces, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
The disease -- which has killed more than 200 people and infected about 4,000 in 25 countries -- is spreading, with the Philippines saying it may have suffered its first SARS death, more fatalities in Hong Kong and more infections in Singapore and India.
But experts are particularly worried about China, where leaders have admitted the health-care system is poor in the countryside where 70 percent of its 1.3 billion people live.
Late on Monday, China said 193 new cases had been reported since Friday, taking the nationwide tally to 2,001. The official Xinhua news agency said 13 more people had died of SARS in the same period, raising the total to 92.
"If you do not have the resources to deal with SARS, I think we're going for a very big outbreak in China," Henk Bekedam, the WHO representative in China, told Reuters.
"I think it will be quite a challenge to contain SARS within China, especially those provinces which have very limited resources," he said.
"We hope that the provinces will be ready," he said. "Otherwise you might have in all the provinces at least 100 cases, and then you can make up the arithmetic."
China has 31 provinces, regions and major cities.
SARS death rate is around 5-6%