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Observations by a Malaysian studying in Australia

Deja Vu

Last April, 10 days before I were to fly off to Kuala Lumpur for the term break, the SARS epidemic exploded across Southeast Asia, started off in Singapore. There was talk that overseas students would have to be quarantined for 10 days upon their return to Australia. I was in a dilemma over whether I should go back to Malaysia, as I wasn't prepared to live in isolation for that long. In the end, I went back anyway, and it was a wise decision as it later turned out that I wasn't required to be quarantined as Malaysia wasn't a SARS-infected country.

Now, 6 months later, and exactly 1 week before I go back to Kuala Lumpur for the spring term break, it was reported yesterday that a Singaporean man was admitted to hospital for displaying SARS-like symptoms.

posted by: Tembaga2 at 09:36 | link | comments (2) |

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#1  10 September 2003 - 14:56

 

hahahahaha....... hey i didn't know u were coming back!! what lah.. coming back when i have school......

Anonymous

#2  10 September 2003 - 23:17

 

yes, thanks for not leaving your name so that I have no idea who you are :P

Tembaga2

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