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To: Bucky Katt who wrote (11384)4/1/2003 9:55:37 AM
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Hong Kong Sets Up Camps To Quarantine SARS Cases

Associated Press

HONG KONG -- Fearful that the isolation quarantine of 240 people in a Hong Kong building hasn't stopped the spread of a mystery disease, health officials said Tuesday they would move the residents into quarantine camps.

Residents of Block E of the Amoy Gardens Apartment complex were being moved Tuesday night to the holiday camps, one in the suburban New Territories and one in a rural part of Hong Kong island, said Dr. Leung Pak Yin, deputy director of health.

Dr. Leung said "environmental factors" in the sealed-off building might be causing the disease to spread, but he didn't elaborate in an evening news conference. There has been speculation a sewage leak might have spread the disease among residents of apartment units at one end of the 33-story building.

Hong Kong officials said Tuesday an additional 75 people were hit by severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, including 52 from the Amoy Gardens complex. It wasn't immediately clear how many of the new cases had come from Block E, which was sealed off Monday with barricades and police tape.

Residents were told they would have to stay inside for 10 days, with regular medical checkups and three free meals a day provided. But officials soon began floating the idea of making quarantine centers in the holiday camps and they took that step Tuesday night.
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