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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pompsander who wrote (12014)	4/29/2009 4:03:36 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Obama ? you would have blamed Bush for that

To: pompsander who wrote (12014)	5/1/2009 12:23:44 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 103300

celebrating 100 days of flipflopper-in-chief: HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's government said that approximately 300 guests and staff of a hotel in the territory would be quarantined for seven days after a guest was found to have the A/H1N1 flu virus. The extreme move comes after Chief Executive Donald Tsang said Friday that lab tests confirmed a visitor from Mexico who arrived on a China Eastern Airlines flight from Shanghai had the disease. [Policemen wearing protective masks restrict access to a hotel in Hong Kong on Friday.] Reuters Policemen wearing protective masks restrict access to a hotel in Hong Kong on Friday. Hong Kong's case marks the first official appearance of A/H1N1 in East Asia. The patient was staying at the Metropark Hotel in Wanchai, which is owned by a local subsidiary of China Travel Service. Friday evening, police were outside the hotel preventing people from entering or leaving. Guests at the hotel are free to move within the hotel, but can't leave and are being encouraged to stay in their rooms and minimize contact with others, the government spokesman said. They will be given preventative doses of Tamiflu. The patient himself is being kept in isolation at a hospital. Hong Kong's Secretary for Food and Health, York Chow, said that three people who have been in close contact with the patient are also being separately quarantined. Tsang said Friday that he would rather err on the side of overcaution than let the disease spread. The move to impose a quarantine reflects Hong Kong's experience coping with an outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, in 2003, which made 1,755 people fall ill and killed 299 in the territory. The disease's spread was in part traced back to a single infected guest at the Metropole Hotel in Kowloon. "This transmission would have happened sooner or later, because the pandemic has already started," said Yi Guan, a microbiologist at Hong Kong University. ""There's nothing surprising, the only thing we can do at this moment is to minimize the impact." Guan said Hong Kong's system was "much improved from six years ago" during the SARS outbreak. He noted that there are isolation wards in place in Hong Kong hospitals, and the government is doing a good job of communication and coordination. A large number of people are expected to be traveling this May 1 Labor Day weekend in both Hong Kong and China. Write to Peter Stein at peter.stein@wsj.com and Jonathan Cheng at jonathan.cheng@wsj.com