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人民为什么会暴乱？这是社会第一课的第一个问题。
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SARS Rioting Hits China; Outbreak Worsens in Taiwan
Updated 11:16 AM ET May 5, 2003
By Juliana Liu
BEIJING (Reuters) - Villagers in China protested violently against quarantining suspected SARS patients near their homes and China reported scores more cases, suggesting the deadly disease was far from under control at the epicenter of global outbreaks.
About 1,000 villagers in the town of Xiandie in coastal Zhejiang province smashed and overturned police and government cars, and demanded that the patients, quarantined in the poorly equipped office building, be moved away.
The latest eruption of SARS rioting in China came as the outbreak in Taipei worsened. But Hong Kong and Singapore showed signs of containing the deadly virus that has killed 461 people and infected nearly 7,000 across the world.
The rioting in Xiandie had halted but villagers remained at the compound gate and police had been dispatched to disperse the crowd, said an official at the local police station.
"They are furious because they don't want the sick people so close to their homes," said the official who gave her surname as Zhuang.
The riot in Zhejiang followed another big protest last week sparked by SARS fears in Chagugang, a township 70 km (45 miles) southeast of Beijing. Villagers there rioted over a plan to use an abandoned school to quarantine patients.
China's Health Ministry said on Monday nine more people had died from SARS, taking the nation's total to 206. It said there had been 160 new infections, similar to totals in the past several days, for a cumulative total of 4,280 cases.
China's new leaders headed by President Hu Jintao, who took office in March, worry that SARS-related violence will erode the carefully guarded bedrock of social stability and pose the kind of political challenge that disgruntled farmers and the unemployed have raised in the recent past.
The incidents highlight deep public distress over SARS.
Officials and ordinary Chinese fear the spread of the disease to the country's vast and poor hinterland, where healthcare systems are no match for the highly infectious virus.
TAIWAN OUTBREAK WORSENS
The World Health Organisation (WHO) met with Taiwan officials for the first visit time in 30 years, underlining the seriousness of an outbreak that killed two more on the island on Monday.
In a sign that politics was being put aside -- at least temporarily -- to combat the growing spread of SARS, two doctors from the WHO arrived in Taipei on Saturday for a landmark 13-day visit that was approved by China.
Taiwan lost its WHO seat in 1972 after Beijing replaced Taipei at the United Nations. The island has lobbied repeatedly to rejoin the health body, but membership is blocked by China, which regards self-governing Taiwan as a breakaway province that has to be reunited with the mainland, by force if necessary.
"I hope it will be a kind of ice-breaking visit," Chen Chien-jen, chairman of the Department of Health's SARS Advisory Committee, told Reuters.
While earlier-hit regions such as Vietnam, Singapore and Hong Kong appear to be containing their outbreaks, Taiwan's probable and suspected cases of the infections has tripled to 300 in the last two weeks. The death toll is now at 10.
Hong Kong, which announced three more deaths and eight infections on Monday, said it is beginning to contain the disease and plans new measures to fight its economic impact.
The number of new cases remained the same as Sunday, the lowest since mid-March.
The territory's leader, Tung Chee-hwa, said Hong Kong, the most SARS-affected area outside of China, would begin talks with WHO about lifting a travel advisory that has hurt its economy.
MARKETS RISE ON SARS OPTIMISM
The flu-like disease, widely believed to have originated in southern China's Guangdong province, hit Hong Kong in March and has been spread around the world by travelers.
On April 2, the WHO issued an advisory to urge travelers to postpone visits to Hong Kong and Guangdong, dealing a hard blow to tourism, travel and retail industries in the territory.
Singapore, which has the world's third-highest number of SARS deaths, has gone 48 hours without a new case. On Monday it reopened a major food market at the heart of a recent outbreak.
Hospitals, the scene of most SARS infections in Singapore, also appear to have brought the virus under control with no infections occurring in any hospital in 16 days.
The news was a relief for battered investors, who drove the Hong Kong and Singapore stock markets higher in cautious trade.
Across the Asia-Pacific region, SARS has hammered regional airlines, cruise operators, travel agencies, hotels, restaurants and retail and taxi services.
A key tourism body in Australia said on Monday fears over the virus and the Iraq war had slashed tourist arrivals by a fifth last month and the drop in visitors was set to get worse.
In a report that could shed light on the frightening spread of SARS, the WHO said on its Web site on Sunday the virus could live up to four days in the waste from patients with diarrhea.
But standard disinfectants such as chlorine bleach killed the virus in five minutes, the WHO found.
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