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Swine Flu Diary: Caught in a Beijing Dragnet

& amp of WASHINGTON; #151; I telephone has squillato to the 5:30 a.m the 18 saturdays July, stonandolo from a difficult sleep. My husband and I were fearing this call. She was our daughter of 14 years, Olivia, on a travel of study of language to Beijing. It is usually calm and upbeat. Now it was phrenetic and to scream:

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Subjects of periods: Infuence of the pigs (virus AH1N1)

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Olivia Robinson with its parents, Sheryl Stolberg gaio and Scott Robinson.

& amp; #8220; Mother, I have a temperature and a I& amp; #8217; m. that they cough and they& amp; #8217; king taking it all' hospital. I want to come home.& amp; #8221; I have said to take a respiration deep, own while I was churning. We had feared that Olivia could obtain interfered in China& amp; #8217; net to train of infuence of the pigs of s; now those fears had come to pass in what would be transformed in an incubus of the bureaucracy and the linguistiche barriers, against the context sleep-depriving of a time difference of 12 hours. Like a correspondent of the White House and former producer of science for New York Times, I have a professional understanding of the international relationships and like spread of epidemics. My by-product and I are obtaining a deeply personal lesson in both. Here & amp; #151; like newspaper of the mother-daughter, with Olivia& amp; #8217; dettature of s from I telephone in the & amp dell' hospital; #151; it is our history. SHERYL Washington, 13 mondays July. It bags is packed, she& amp; #8217; s ready to go. Olivia and others 20 adolescents are on this travel, work dall' university of Maryland& amp; #8217; institute of s Confucius and Hanban, an arm of the Chinese ministry of formation. It has dressed, camera, spuntini, a platform of the papers, Tylenol, an antibiotic for un' annoying infection of the breast and a doctor& amp; #8217; famous of s that its declares & amp; #8220; not contagious and safe to travel.& amp; #8221; The virus of infuence of the pigs, H1N1, is running through our schools and camps summery. The Chinese, still chopped herbs dall' SAR epidemic, is trying to contain it & amp; #151; a effort that the civil employees of the health publics Americans observe like unreasonable, because l' infuence is delicate and because to arrest the relative spread it is like the test to arrest the common cold. The hundreds of thought Americans suspicion of transport of the H1N1 quarantined in China this summer. We are risoluti: this is not going to happen to us.OLIVIA Beijing, 14 tuesdays July. Before that we remove ourselves dall' airplane, we have seen people in garments white men with the things that have been similar the guns of the radar. They have indicated a light to our foreheads, muoventesi quickly. Fortunately, nobody has had a temperature, so as to was free to go. We have walked with a corridor and we have seen a machine tan and the gentleman in the templates that are based to a computer screen. They have had our companies of heat. Our bodies illuminated in on. All it has seemed red. I have seen one of our teachers, l$signora Song and Nolan outside to the side. Initially Nolan&amp has thought hardly; amp; #8217; the temperature of s was high because in order to come in China, but it has been concluded on going all' hospital. The rest of we has gone to the school of foreign language of Beijing. SHERYL the 15 Wednesday July. Olivia has called! It was sending with the e-mail with the observations of China (& amp; #8220; They have tolette that they are hardly holes& amp; #8221;). The call has carried the disturbing news: a & amp; #8220; quarantine.& amp of a day; #8221; The travel to the strict city disinserito era. They were to remain accei university cities, with three daily controls of temperature. My heart has sunk. This has not preannounced well. And it didn& amp; #8217; the t it has meant. If Nolan had infuence of the pigs, the kidskin could be richer separate. Era midnight, noon to Beijing. I have called l' American embassy. OLIVIA the 16 thursday July. I have slept m

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