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To: RealMuLan who wrote (33492)	5/12/2003 12:56:22 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Your today's ration of SARS FT fed scary stuff: SARS demonstrators!! Could you believe this one. People fearing getting sick protesting? Perhaps some shadow players fanning the flames to make their case and fish on the dirty waters. <<"But as long as the outbreak goes unchecked in China, the point of final assembly for a plethora of manufactured goods, economists see a risk of output disruptions that would push up prices worldwide of everything from toys to televisions." You know the goal, don't you?>> By Mure Dickie in Beijing Published: May 11 2003 21:52 \| Last Updated: May 11 2003 21:52 Chinese police have detained the alleged ringleaders of a rowdy protest by more than 300 people in the northern city of Tianjin after the latest of a string of demonstrations by those fearing Severe Acure Respiratory Syndrome (Sars). The arrests in Tianjin following protests against a planned medical centre, and reports of unrest in other Chinese towns and villages, reflect the tensions caused by efforts to develop facilities for treatment or isolation of victims of Sars, which has infected 5,000 in China and killed 240. Tianjin, a port city an hour from the hard-hit capital Beijing, has been suffering a rapid increase in cases. The number has risen by more than 50 per cent over the past week to 157. The official Xinhua news agency said a crowd of more than 300 residents had used telephone poles, bricks and a truckload of other building materials to block roads around the site of a planned infectious diseases centre in Tianjin's Hongqiao district. In a protest at another Sars facility in Tianjin late last month, residents beat up two police officers and damaged government property, the agency said. Chinese officials have expressed optimism that the spread of Sars in Beijing - the most dangerous source of infection for Tianjin and other nearby areas - is being slowed, with the daily total of new cases falling well below 100 in recent days. However, the World Health Organisation has warned of serious shortcomings in the epidemiological data being provided by the capital, despite repeated calls for more information on Sars transmission routes. Meanwhile, Taiwan will on Monday begin using 2,000 imported sets of teleconferencing equipment to monitor the homes of people quarantined for Sars infection. Yu Cheng-hsien, interior minister, said the government would give priority to monitoring those people who had a record of quarantine evasion. The government will also conduct random checks of the 22,030 people who have been quarantined at home and fine evaders T$60,000 (US$1,725). Taiwan's government has resorted to increasingly draconian measures to halt the spread of the disease.