China: Painful prognosis

International | For Hong Kong residents emerging from the SARS epidemic, city life faces a lengthy recuperation too | Mindy Belz

NAN PIN CHEE WAS A BUSY MAN. The head of Missionary Training College of Asia and Hong Kong representative for WEC International, Mr. Chee was known as a quiet and wise leader among the city's large assembly of long-serving missionaries devoted to Hong Kong and mainland China.

The busy life for Mr. Chee and his family ended in March when their sprawling apartment complex in Hong Kong's New Territories came under SARS quarantine. In Amoy Gardens over 300 people came down with SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. The 54-year-old Mr. Chee, his wife, and their 15-year-old son were among those cases. All three were hospitalized for weeks as one semi-comatose day ran into the next, characterized by high fever, painful wracking coughs, and other pneumonia-like symptoms.

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