China quarantines hundreds in race to contain outbreak

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AP , BEIJING
Tuesday, Apr 27, 2004,Page 5

Nearly 500 people were in quarantine in China's capital and Anhui Province yesterday as authorities raced to contain a small eruption of SARS before a national holiday puts millions of travelers on the road.

Two confirmed cases of SARS and six suspected ones have been announced over the past week, all of them linked to people who worked in a SARS lab in Beijing.

People in Beijing and in Anhui believed to have come in contact with those cases -- 337 in the capital and 133 in the province -- are under quarantine, according to the official newspaper China Daily. Government investigators also fanned out to examine labs that do SARS research, the newspaper said.

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1. I really hope this never happens here.

Quarantining and all.