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Tuesday, April 1, 2003
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Canadian province declares state of emergen^
By Dirk Beveridge
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Illness spreads despite quarantines
HONG KONG — Health offi
cials sealed off an apartment
building and quarantined all 240
residents Monday after reporting
an alarming jump in new cases of
a mystery flu-like disease.
More than 600 people in this
city are believed to have the dan
gerous respiratory infection, and
almost half of those live in the
Amoy Gardens apartment com
plex. Officials reported 92 new
cases in the complex on Monday.
Severe acute respiratory
syndrome, or SARS, has
prompted officials in Asian
countries to enforce little-used
quarantine laws, close schools
and impose new health screen
ings on travelers.
The disease, which has no
proven treatment, also contin
ued spreading in other affected
hot spots, such as Singapore
and Toronto.
Doctors and nurses in
Singapore donned special respi
rator suits designed for handling
germ warfare attacks so they
could get close to patients
infected with SARS.
In Canada, where a health
emergency has been declared in
Ontario province, Toronto
authorities reported that at least
two children had been hospital
ized with the disease, and three
others were showing symptoms
of it. But they would not give
details.
Worldwide about 60 people
have died — at least 15 of those
in Hong Kong. Government
officials are pondering setting
up quarantine centers if the dis
ease cannot be contained.
The World Health
Organization said Monday that
experts hope to pinpoint the
Severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, has rapidly spra
to more than 1,600 reported cases worldwide. With about 60
reported deaths, mostly in Asia, thousands of people are unde
quarantine as health officials search for the cure of the outbrej
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causes about one-fifth of all
common colds.
Hitoshi Oshitani, the WHO
coordinator for SARS, said he
believes scientists will deter
mine the cause soon, possibly
within days.
“But this doesn’t mean we
will find the specific treatment
for this disease within the short
time period,” he said.
In fact, the Centers for
Disease Control and
Prevention said Saturday that
no current drugs were working
against the disease.
In a new and perplexing
twist, the germ inside the Hong
Kong apartment building
seemed to be spreading upward,
a WHO official said Monday.
“They are finding that the
infections are in people living in
apartments on top of each other,
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By Emily Gersema
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Europe’s
opposition to biotech food isn’t
stopping U.S. farmers from
planting more genetically engi
neered crops.
This spring, they’re devoting
fewer acres to growing corn and
soybeans but intend to plant more
biotech crops than ever — part of
a growing trend, the Agriculture
Department said Monday.
“This is only the fourth year
that we’ve been tracking it, but
from that, it is the highest it’s
been,” said Darin Jantzi, a depart
ment statistician.
While U.S. consumers gener
ally accept biotech foods,
Europeans doubt their safety.
That concern prompted the
European Union to put a morato
rium on U.S. biotech imports. It’s
been in place for four years, cost
ing the United States $300 mil
lion annually in com exports.
However, an Agriculture
Department survey says 38 per
cent of the 79 million acres of
corn planted this year probably
will be genetically engineered.
That’s up four percentage points
from last year and 13 percentage
points over the 2000 crop.
Total com acreage is project
ed to be almost the same as last
year’s 79.05 million acres —
just 32,000 acres less.
U.S. fanners like biotech
crops because they require fewer
chemicals for killing insects and
weeds. They have been planting
two main varieties, one of which
is known as Bt, or bacillus
thuringiensis. It is genetically
engineered to fend off insects.
The other variety, Roundup
Ready, allows farmers to spray
and kill weeds with Monsanto
Co.’s Roundup herbicide with
out killing the com plant.
Growers likely will plant more
biotech soybeans, too. The
department predicts 80 percent of
this year’s 73.2 million acres of
soybeans will be a biotech variety
engineered to tolerate Roundup.
That’s up five percentage points
from last year’s biotech soybean
crop and 16 percentage points
over the 2000 crop.
The department predicts the
soybean crop will be the smallest
since 1998, down 1 percent from
the 73.8 million acres grown last
year. Many growers are switching
back to com because wet weather
last year prevented them from
planting it, forcing them to raise
soybeans instead.
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Monday for Delta, Northwest bio re than me
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on each other's flights.
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