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[gmat]

I teach at at Dalian Maritime University in Liaoning Province where there are no officially reported cases.

Funny thing is that the latest news from campus is that 8 students here have the disease. This is getting ridiculous!

[MyTurnNow]

Gmat, just curious about the 8 infected students...
where is that from? Is that hard news (such as it is around here) in the media, or just a rumor?

MT

[gmat]

It is just a rumour, but very credible. A student's mother works as a nurse at a local hospital. Treating 8 students from our uni. Not a fact as of yet.

BUT, it might explain why the FAO gave all the foreign teachers some type of disinfectant to spray around our apartments this weekend.

FYI: there are about 10,000 students at our university.

More news coming out: university functions (meetings, movies, etc.) were all cancelled today Sunday. Now we know the reason!

This bites!

[Roger]

This morning I read on a German website (www.spiegel.de) that one American physician, Dr. Nyman (correct spelling?) believes the actual death rate among SARS patients is closer to 18%. Hitherto it had been assumed that 4 to 6% would not survive.
The higher death toll is arrived at by taking into account the fact that the majority of SARS carriers have not been released from hospitals yet.
HK has been reporting very fluctuating fatalities, the lowest at 4, the highest at 18 in the past week. ALso the ages of people that died has varied from elderlies to midlifers.
Mutation of the genes of the bug has been suspected for some time.

ANd May First holidays have been reduced from one week to one day throughout the PR of China, and in many places students have been sternly ordered to remain on their campus.
THis no doubt will affect many of us working in universities and colleges!
Those in HK have had two weeks of cancelled classes - they will have to make up...