{"id":12589,"date":"2009-05-03T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T01:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/hong_kong_hotel_quarantine_move_stirs_controversy\/"},"modified":"2009-05-03T01:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T01:00:47","slug":"hong_kong_hotel_quarantine_move_stirs_controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12589","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong hotel quarantine move stirs controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travellers quarantined in a Hong Kong hotel for a week after a Mexican guest tested positive for the H1N1 flu expressed dismay on Saturday at the tough steps, while an infectious disease expert said the authorities had over-reacted.<\/p>\n<p>Police wearing surgical masks sealed off the Metropark hotel on Friday night after test results on the 25-year-old Mexican man were confirmed, ordering approximately 200 guests and 100 staff to stay in the hotel for the next seven days.<\/p>\n<p>The measures taken by the authorities in Hong Kong underscore the concern here about the new flu and the confirmed case, Asia&#8217;s first. Hong Kong was badly hit by the SARS virus in 2003 and has had many episodes of H5N1 bird flu for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/latestCrisis\/idUSHKG2279\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travellers quarantined in a Hong Kong hotel for a week after a Mexican guest tested positive for the H1N1 flu expressed dismay on Saturday at the tough steps, while an infectious disease expert said the authorities had over-reacted. Police wearing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12589\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,201,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}