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To: RealMuLan who wrote (31656)	4/17/2003 12:29:46 AM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi Yiwu Zhang, 1/3 of the 1st 300 some SARS patients in Guangdong were medical care givers. but after they adopted strict measures, now almost none of them got infected. So, you're saying that in the initial phases of the outbreak, that the care givers were perhaps a little lax, or at least a little less stringent with their own safety precautions than they are now? If so, that explanation would run very contrary to initial reports from both China and Hong Kong, where officials indicated that every precaution was being taken, and that known patients were in isolation wards. Perhaps the various government officials "fudged" a little bit in order not to stoke the fires of panic... As for HK, the central Air-conditioning and not enough fresh air circulation really contributes the continuing spread among medical staffs. Few hospitals in China has central air. I wasn't aware of the differences between the hospitals in China and Hong Kong. I merely presumed that any differences were minimal, and the level of competent health care in each region was roughly the same. Your observation on the availability of central air conditioning in Hong Kong hospitals might lend some credence to those medical researchers that believe that SARS is an airborne transmitted disease. KJC