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Hong Kong Prison Homes Spur Virus Risk Decade After SARS
By Natasha Khan on March 07, 2013
Chan Sung-ming says the coughs and sneezes echoing through the plywood walls of his windowless, 60- square foot Hong Kong apartment get him thinking: is there a bug going around and could it be deadly?
A decade after SARS began a lethal odyssey via Hong Kong, which has the world's most-densely populated urban areas, Chan says his apartment -- one of eight in a space about the size of a squash court -- makes him feel more prone to airborne germs.
Even as the city spends HK$1.6 billion ($206 million) a year on a disease-tracking center to prepare for future contagions, a tripling in the price of homes in the past decade have forced its 7.2 million residents closer together. That?s stoking the potential for a rapid rise of bugs like the severe acute respiratory virus that exploded there in early 2003...
Hong Kong Prison Homes Spur Virus Risk Decade After SARS
By Natasha Khan on March 07, 2013
Chan Sung-ming says the coughs and sneezes echoing through the plywood walls of his windowless, 60- square foot Hong Kong apartment get him thinking: is there a bug going around and could it be deadly?
A decade after SARS began a lethal odyssey via Hong Kong, which has the world's most-densely populated urban areas, Chan says his apartment -- one of eight in a space about the size of a squash court -- makes him feel more prone to airborne germs.
Even as the city spends HK$1.6 billion ($206 million) a year on a disease-tracking center to prepare for future contagions, a tripling in the price of homes in the past decade have forced its 7.2 million residents closer together. That?s stoking the potential for a rapid rise of bugs like the severe acute respiratory virus that exploded there in early 2003...