Three Hong Kong reporters hospitalized with SARS-like symptoms

[DuctapeFatwa]

Three television reporters have been admitted to a Hong Kong hospital after showing SARS-like symptoms following a visit to the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The three men from local broadcaster TVB had been in Guangdong last week to cover a SARS case in the province involving a 32-year-old mainland Chinese television journalist.

The three were admitted to Queen Mary Hospital after displaying symptoms of fever, coughs and upper tract infection.

They are now in isolation wards and are in stable condition, said the spokeswoman.

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[Mel]

1. Did you see this?

I read the below article earlier and when I saw this report it makes me say to myself hummmm...... I wonder if the reporters are really sick or are they being detained?


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=302818

Ruby Romaine (39 posts)

Wed Jan-07-04 05:04 PM
Original message

7 at Chinese Paper Held After Articles on New SARS Case

Edited on Wed Jan-07-04 05:06 PM by Ruby Romaine

BEIJING, Jan. 7 — The police stormed the offices of one of China's feistiest newspapers and detained the top editor and six other officials in what many journalists regard as retribution for aggressive reporting on a recent SARS case, employees said today.

The crackdown on the newspaper, Southern Metropolis Daily, came soon after it became the first news media outlet to report on the fresh outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Guangzhou, the paper's hometown. The paper's investigation late last month prompted authorities to confirm that China had its first suspected case of SARS since the epidemic petered out last summer.

Southern Metropolis Daily also came under heavy political pressure last spring when it exposed the beating death of a migrant worker in police custody, a case that eventually prompted the central government to abolish longstanding rules that allowed the police to detain migrants at will.





http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/07/international/asia/07CND-CHIN.html
 

[kalian]

2. That....

has always been my suspicions about SARS. Given that the "symptoms"
are so similar to the common flu, I wonder whether this "disease"
can be a means of oppressing people...
:tinfoilhat: