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SARS: chain of transmission at Hotel Metropole, Hong Kon

Hospital 2 Hong Kong ↓ HCW +

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Hospital 1 Hong Kong 99 HCW

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Hospital 4 Hong Kong

Viet Mone 37 MCW+ 1

4 other Hong Kong hospitals 28 HCW

Bangkok HCW

The World Health Organisation's Executive Director for Communicable Diseases, Dr David Heymann, giving a presentation on SARS in Hong Kong on June 15; and (below right) visiting the Amoy Gardens housing estate in Ngau Tau Kok where one block had to be evacuated. Above right: the WHO Director-General, Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, speaking to reporters at the airport after inspecting quarantine and health control facilities there during a one-day visit to Hong Kong on June 19.