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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING — A prominent Chinese doctor charged
Wednesday that the mainland government covered up details
>f the spread of SARS in Beijing, and an American man with
he disease was declared dead in Hong Kong after being
Iriven across the border in an ambulance.
Other parts of Asia nervously invoked extra precautions to
ontain severe acute respiratory syndrome, which has infect-
d around 2,700 people globally and killed at least 106.
The accusations of a government cover-up from Dr. Jiang
fanyong, retired chief of surgery for a Beijing military hos-
lital, came as news surfaced that one of Beijing’s hospitals
lad shut down because of SARS.
Jiang said doctors and nurses at two other hospitals told
lim at least seven deaths have occurred in their hospitals and
hat there were 106 cases of the disease in Beijing — more
han five times the figure announced by authorities. The
lealth Ministry reports four deaths and 19 cases in Beijing.
Doctors and administrators reached by telephone at the
icspitals cited by Jiang refused to comment.
World Health Organization investigators said they met
are in AfghanisMvith Health Minister Zhang Wenkang and Vice Premier Wu
el fighters from" fi on Wednesday, discussing “the concern that there are
nan regime, al-Q® nany rumors and no clear answers,” said Henk Bekedam,
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rased at Shkin,. v jth this high level of commitment, very soon we’ll get
ome real answers,” Bekedam said.
At the People’s Armed Police General Hospital in
kijing, a receptionist who answered the telephone said the
acility had closed five days ago after staff members fell ill.
rhe wouldn't give her name.
A sign blocking the entrance to the hospital said,
‘Adjustments being made inside, treatment temporarily sus-
ended, entry forbidden.”
Meanwhile, James Salisbury, a 52-year-old U.S. citizen and
inglish instructor at a polytechnic institute in Guangdong
irovince, was taken from a hospital in the border city of
ihenzhen to Hong Kong, according to a family friend.
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■if life when he was put in an ambulance and driven across the
-■order to Hong Kong. Salisbury’s 6-year-old son, Mickey, also
buffering from SARS, was being treated in Hong Kong’s Tuen
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By Edith Lederer
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNITED NATIONS — The
J.N. Security Council refused
that such a redeplf Wednesday to act on a U.S.
equest to condemn North
des did not discs Korea for pulling out of a
troops, Lawlesssa 1 reaty to curb nuclear weapons
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not weaken thd* ftom China and Russia,
orth Korean mil® But u - s - Ambassador John
it there would be; ^ e g r °ponte called the council’s
deterrence of if :x P ress ‘ on °f concern “an
cceptable outcome.” He
xpressed hope that North Korea
‘will not reject diplomatic efforts
o address its nuclear program”
and warned Pyongyang against
.any “further escalatory steps.”
The only way the
problem is going to be
solved is direct
bilateral dialogue
between Washington
and Pyongyang.
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— Sergey Lavrov
Russia's U.N. ambassador
At the heart of the dispute is
orth Korea’s insistence on
irect talks with the United
tales, which it views as a threat
to its security.
The Bush administration,
which has called North Korea
part of an “axis of evil” along
with Iran and Iraq, insists that the
problem be addressed in a multi
lateral forum, including countries
threatened by Pyongyang’s
nuclear program.
China, Russia, the European
Union and Secretary-General
Kofi Annan have tried to get
North Korea and the United
States to the negotiating table.
U.N. envoy Maurice Strong, who
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woman, Josephine Yu.
Westbrook, said Salisbury had been ill for about a month but
thought he had the flu and only sought treatment nine days ago.
Salisbury had split his time between teaching in China and Orem,
Utah, where he lived, according to one of his daughters.
Another American citizen, Shanghai businessman Johnny
Chen, died March 13 in Hong Kong after becoming ill in
Vietnam. There have been no SARS deaths in the United States,
where there are 149 suspected cases.
The communist government has faced criticism abroad and
from ordinary Chinese about its sluggish release of information
about SARS. Despite recent pledges of openness by senior offi
cials, the Health Ministry and other offices decline to release
details about deaths and cases of infection.
The outbreak has prompted the cancellation of numerous
events in China, from rock concerts to trade conventions. On
Wednesday the vice premier pledged to help foreign visitors by
setting up English hot lines and Web sites in major cities to deal
with queries about SARS; hospitals will make special medical
services available to foreigners as well, he said.
In the United States, three U.S. medical workers who cared
for SARS patients likely have contracted the disease, according
to Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. There are 154 suspected cases in the
United States.
Other countries took new actions to stop the disease’s
spread:
— Concerns about possible exposure to SARS prompted
health authorities in Toronto to close a high school and put
about 200 workers at a business under quarantine. More than
200 probable or suspect cases have been reported in Canada,
including 10 deaths and about 50 people who have recovered.
— Malaysia stopped issuing visas Wednesday for most
Chinese travelers, citing fears of SARS.
— Indonesia warned its citizens to cease spitting in pub
lic places.
— Singapore’s Roman Catholic Church reportedly ordered
its priests to stop hearing confessions.
Thailand’s leader promised to pay $48,000 to families of
anyone who dies from SARS and can prove it was contracted
during next week’s traditional New Year celebrations. Prime
Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s unusual offer demonstrated his
confidence that “there’s no SARS” in his country.
In Hong Kong, officials cautiously prepared to let more
than 200 people go home from quarantine camps after they
SARS may spread much like
the common cold
Scientists suspect that SARS may be caused
by a new form of the coronavirus, the virus
that causes the common cold. It appears to
spread in a similar way.
An infected
person
sneezes near you
When viewed
under a
microscope,
coronaviruses
have a distinctive
crown-like halo.
You inhale
the virus
particle and it
attaches to cells
lining the sinuses
in your nose
r -3% The
virus
attacks the
cells in the
sinuses and
reproduces
The host cells
break and the
virus spreads into your
bloodstream and lungs
SOURCES: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; “How Viruses Work”
AP
showed no signs of SARS. But there were two more deaths,
bringing the total to 27, and 42 more cases reported there
Wednesday as the illness continued its climb in the hardest-
hit city.
SARS has killed more than 100 people worldwide and sick
ened more than 2,700.
China has reported 53 deaths — all but 10 of them in the
southern province of Guangdong, where officials say the
world's first known SARS case occurred in November.
The World Health Organization and several governments
have issued warnings against traveling to Guangdong. A team
of WHO investigators visited the province over the weekend in
hopes of tracing the source of the disease, but said they hadn't
found anything conclusive.
Despite the lack of answers, Dr. Meirion Evans, a Welsh
epidemiologist and a member of the multinational WHO team,
said insights gained there would be invaluable to learning
more about the disease.
just returned from Pyongyang,
said Tuesday both sides now
agree to hold direct and multilat
eral talks, but haven’t agreed on
the format.
North Korea has warned that
any Security Council action
would undermine peace efforts
and it has reiterated several times
that it would regard U.N. sanc
tions as a declaration of war.
With such high stakes, council
members chose to take no action,
hoping to instead find an accept
able framework for talks.
“The council will continue to
follow up developments of this
matter. There is nothing else to
add to this,” said council presi
dent Adolfo Aguilar Zinser,
Mexico’s U.N. Ambassador.
China’s Foreign Ministry said
Tuesday the Security Council had
no business discussing North
Korea’s nuclear program.
Leaving Wednesday’s meet
ing, China’s U.N. Ambassador,
Wang Yingfan, said, “I think it
was a good discussion. All the
efforts are being done, and will
continue, to promote political dia
logue — that’s what I stressed.”
“The only way the problem is
going to be solved is direct bilat
eral dialogue between
Washington and Pyongyang, and
whatever multilateral formats are
used should be in addition to
this,” said Russia’s U.N.
Ambassador, Sergey Lavrov.
The standoff began in
October when U.S. officials
said North Korea admitted it
had a clandestine nuclear pro
gram. North Korea’s U.N.
Ambassador Pak Gil Yon called
the report “a rumor.”
Washington suspended fuel
shipments that were part of a
1994 agreement with the United
States that froze North Korea’s
nuclear program. The North retal
iated by expelling U.N. nuclear
monitors and withdrawing from
the Nuclear Nonproliferation
Treaty as of Thursday.
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