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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (32076)	4/22/2003 5:07:53 AM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Respond to of 74559

Hong Kong reports progress in gaining control of SARS Dirk Beveridge Associated Press Apr. 22, 2003 12:00 AM HONG KONG - Hong Kong's leader said Monday that the territory is gaining ground in the fight against a deadly respiratory virus sweeping Asia, even though the death toll continues to rise and there is still no known cure. Thirteen new SARS deaths were reported Monday, seven in mainland China and six in Hong Kong. Yet Hong Kong's deaths and 22 new cases Monday are fewer than the jumps of 40 and 50 cases a day that the World Health Organization had reported recently. Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa said quarantine measures and efforts to find people who came into contact with those infected seem to be working. Hong Kong and China have been hardest hit by SARS. "On the whole, I think we are slowly but surely getting the figures stabilized," Tung told reporters. About 3,900 people have been infected by SARS worldwide. The 13 new deaths, reported by China's Health Ministry and in a Hong Kong government statement, brings the global death toll to at least 218. World Health Organization spokeswoman Maria Cheng said the latest figures out of Hong Kong are encouraging because the territory hasn't seen the sharp spikes in cases. She also said that in Hong Kong, new cases can be traced back to other reports of SARS and aren't appearing in unexpected places. "Hong Kong has been taking the right infection-containment measures," Cheng said. "Every new case we're still able to track to someone who is known to have had SARS." There is no known cure for the illness, though people treated early enough usually recover, and most of those who have died in Hong Kong were elderly or sick with something else. Symptoms include a fever of more than 100, a cough and difficulty breathing. In China, where SARS appears to have originated, the government again sought to show it was taking the illness seriously enough after playing down the crisis and apparently covering up the number of cases for weeks. Chinese President Hu Jintao said Monday that his government is "giving top priority" to SARS, according to news reports. The illness dominated Chinese state media on Monday. KJC