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To: TobagoJack who wrote (30211)	3/27/2003 12:56:51 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

As the fight roars, some companies start buying on the cheap: Plans by German industrial giant Siemens AG SIEGn.DE and German hospital equipment maker Draegerwerk AG DRWG_p.DE to acquire joint control of Draegerwerk's health care unit Draeger Medical AG "Co. KGaA (notified Dec 6/deadline Jan 21/in-depth probe set on Jan 22/deadline June 2) Besides that Siemens want to gobble Alsthom too. Having a base in the US (it bought Westinghouse minus the nuclear power plant business) Siemens can benefit of reconstruction even though German-based firms won't get part of the deal. Despite the bombardment of favorable news reaching the US citizens, the war will be decided by the body count. The body bags can't be disguised by favorable news. Iraq wants the body bags to pile up as high as it can to turn public opinion in the US against the war. Strategy is: Block supply lines, get TV footage of destroyed truck convoys and soldiers and materiel stuck without fuel and running low in water and food. Add to that: 1) more troops being sent in and; 2) In about ten days costs of the war on the overall business landscape starts to appear. things start looking less rosy. Thailand: 5-star hotels occupancy dropped just a little. Thai airways passengers dropped just a little.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (30211)	3/31/2003 5:48:24 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Jay, were you on this flight? iht.com <...All passengers who flew aboard Dragaonair Flight 901 from Beijing to Hong Kong on March 26 should contact the health authorities immediately, health officials said. . The 60 new infections reported in Hong Kong on Sunday represented the largest number in a single day in any country since the epidemic began to be tracked. . But what particularly worried health officials was that more than half the patients lived in Amoy Gardens, a housing estate that already reported 78 cases. . ‘‘We are investigating the Amoy Gardens cluster on all fronts,’’ said Thomas Tseng, the Hong Kong health department’s consultant on community medicine. . ‘‘We are checking the air, water, garbage and any possible gatherings.’’ . Tseng added that no hypothesis had been ruled out, including one on a newly mutated form of the virus that could undergo airborne transmission or survive extended periods of time on open surfaces. . The mysterious illness has infected more than 1,600 people in 15 countries worldwide and killed at least 55, including many doctors and nurses who battled the outbreak. . Airlines have said they will slash flight schedules to Hong Kong while the United States this weekend advised Americans to suspend any nonessential travel to the disease hot spots of China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Hanoi. . The expert who first detected the outbreak, Dr. Carlo Urbani, died of the illness Saturday. . Urbani, 46, an expert on communicable diseases, was the first World Health Organization officer to raise alarm about the outbreak of the new disease after examining an American businessman who had been admitted to a Hanoi hospital. . In Singapore, which has the third highest number of reported cases health officials have warned that the virus is likely to persist and have announced a third fatality. . Officials in Canada closed a second Ontario hospital and sought voluntary quarantine for at least 1,800 people amid disturbing signs that the infection had spread. . In Hong Kong, the transportation hub from which the disease is believed to have spread to three continents, 13 people have died and 530 have been hospitalized with the infection. . Following criticism that Hong Kong has reacted too slowly, the government has closed schools for a million students and quarantined a thousand residents. . Inside Amoy Gardens on Sunday, a classic Hong Kong-style lower middle-class housing estate of densely packed apartment blocks, residents have started wearing latex gloves in addition to the ubiquitous surgical face masks. . The normally bustling ground-floor pedestrian area seemed abandoned, with hastily written notes on shuttered shops announcing closures for at least 10 days. . Among the few people walking through the housing estate, many dragged their belongings in suitcases behind them. . Several stairways dripped with disinfectant while health officials manned an information table inside the most affected building, Block E. . At a community center near Amoy Gardens on Sunday, several dozen residents listened intently to a speech delivered by health care workers. The audience and the speakers all wore surgical masks. . ‘‘Wearing masks has not been part of Hong Kong culture up to now,’’ the masked speaker said from the stage. . ‘‘This must change,’’ he said. . Taiwan rethinks China links . Prime Minister Yu Shyi-kun of Taiwan said Sunday that his government was weighing a proposal for the temporary shutdown of its limited direct links with China in order to reduce chances for the respiratory illness to spread, Agence France-Press reported from Taipei. HONG KONG A fast-growing cluster of killer pneumonia infections in a Hong Kong housing estate fueled fears Sunday that the disease known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, may be more contagious than experts believed. . The rising concern came as the health authorities named a fifth flight terminating in Hong Kong on which passengers may have been exposed to infection. . All passengers who flew aboard Dragaonair Flight 901 from Beijing to Hong Kong on March 26 should contact the health authorities immediately, health officials said. . The 60 new infections reported in Hong Kong on Sunday represented the largest number in a single day in any country since the epidemic began to be tracked. > With umpty trillion of the little blighters on the loose now, their mutation rate must be zooming in all directions. That means the probability of a particularly virulent strain of the bug is more likely to develop now. That 'super version' will be the one which swoops around the world, though right now, it seems defeated [once again - this is the second time I've thought it a fizzer]. I wonder how many are NOW wearing mask in the street and on aircraft. I dare say your 3M mask is not so unusual any more and nobody is laughing at you. Mqurice