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Jump to full article: Bloomberg News, 2003-05-01
Author: Jag Dhaliwall
Intro: Indians are immune to it, while a pork-free diet, drinking copious amounts of alcohol and chain smoking cigarettes help keep it at bay.
At least, that's what Singapore's rumor-mongers would have us believe about severe acute respiratory syndrome, the disease that's killed at least 370 people and infected more than 5,660 worldwide.
In Singapore, which has shut schools and quarantined more than 4,000 people to contain the disease, the government takes such talk seriously. So much so that Lee Hsien Loong, son of Singapore's founding father as well as the island nation's Deputy Prime Minister, came out in person to quash the myths today. . .
Singapore would punish such loose talk, he said, warning those spreading rumors they face jail terms of as long as three years.
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