Contagion of Fear: We’re starting to get jittery. A Connecticut school has told students returning from a China trip to stay home for two weeks, for fear they could bring SARS to the school, and an entire airplane arriving in California from Asia was quarantined for two hours.
And from Hong Kong comes this curious report:
Fear of the spread of SARS caused Hong Kong officials recently to quarantine some 15,000 residents in a housing complex. Tuesday, some of those residents were being moved out so medical investigators could search for pockets of infection in the buildings.
How do you detect pockets of virus in a building? Do they have those Star Trek scanners that magically tell you what's in the environment - from life forms to the chemical compostion of the air?
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