[Rhodes22-list] SARS Update

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Brad:  we have friends whose grandchildren WERE in China & they were very 
anxious until the little grandbabies arrived safe & sound----and SARS-less, 
in the US   (the concern was primarily that if they did somehow contract 
SARS, they could only be treated at a CHINESE hospital!!!!)   Anyway, the 
story has a happy ending......no one's sick, etc.......Mary    (I'd wait, too!)






At 01:58 PM 5/5/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>We postponed our annual trip to China for obvious
>reasons.  I fed Fan daily with more bad news but her
>parents in China followed the party line (read the
>newspapers) until it was too overwhelming to ignore.
>Then the truth came out. Now, Beijing has a 911 type
>phone number, 120, that you can call if you have SARS
>symptoms and need transportation to a treatment
>center.  During Fan's last weekly phone conversation
>with her sister and parents the following story was
>told. My sister-in-law has a three year old daughter
>who is about the sharpest kid I ever met (smarter than
>my own). She ran a slight fever a few days ago and her
>parents and grand-parents were quite alarmed.  This is
>how the conversation went (paraphrased from Mandarin
>to English).
>
>Ran Ran, do you feel bad?
>
>No, I feel fine.
>
>But you have a temperature, does your head hurt?
>
>No, I feel fine.
>
>Does your stomach hurt?
>
>No, Mom, I feel fine!
>
>You don't hurt anywhere?
>
>No, I feel fine!  Whatever you do, don't call 120!
>
>We think we'll stay here until the dust settles on
>this issue.
>
>Brad
>
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