| Caroline: Yoga started to become quite popular in HK last summer. Is it catching on in Shanghai yet? Has anyone tried hot room yoga yet? About executing quarantine breaker...it really take places like China to make these kinds of laws -- laws that are never meant to be enforeced (hopefully...) but work more as a deterrent against people breaking quarantine. :-) Here is a news clipping on the law, and the story that might have triggered it. China Threatens to Execute SARS Spreaders (16 May 2003) http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/05/16/china.death/index.html Summary -- China has threatened to execute or jail for life anyone who deliberately spreads the killer SARS virus. People who violate quarantines and spread the virus can be imprisoned for up to seven years, and those who cause death or serious injury by "deliberately spreading" the virus can be sentenced to prison terms of 10 years to life or could face execution. Meanwhile, a doctor carrying SARS was detained for allegedly breaking quarantine and starting an outbreak that infected more than 100 people. Authorities in the northern Chinese city of Linha are preparing to charge Dr. Li Song with violating infectious disease law. Li was infected with SARS while attending a training program in Beijing, but returned to Linhe after receiving only basic treatment in the capital. Li infected family members and the virus eventually spread to 102 people, including 23 medical staff. Li escaped with his wife from their isolation ward quarantine quarters. The two were caught hours later wandering city streets and returned to hospital. After his father died of SARS, Li forbade workers to remove the body, attacked doctors and nurses and smashed hospital equipment. |
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