SARS arrived in Hong Kong in February 2003, when a doctor who had treated some of the cases of SARS at Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital in Guangdong came to attend a family gathering. Dr. Liu Jianlun, Hong Kong's index patient, checked into the Metropole Hotel on February 21, with a room on the ninth floor, specifically room 911. Even though he was already feeling somewhat ill he visited with his family and they traveled around Hong Kong. By the morning of February 22, he knew he was very sick and walked over to seek care at nearby Kwong Wah Hospital. He eventually died there in the Intensive Care Unit on March 4. As he likely had diarrhea, on the night of February 21, he created airborne fecal clouds in his bathroom by flushing the toilet. Those fecal clouds then traveled into the hallway because his room was positively pressurized. Nine 9th floor guests and one visitor breathed in airborne SARS from his fecal cloud and contracted SARS. Surprisingly, his wife who was with him the entire time did not contract SARS. Liu's brother-in-law sought medical treatment in late February, entered the hospital on March 1, and died on March 19. Twenty-three other guests from the Metropole developed SARS, seven of them from the ninth floor, and it is estimated that around 80% of the Hong Kong cases were due to Liu.[7]
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Serious SARS spread like Wild Fire in HK becos Tiong Laosai in Hotel
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sinkies should also develop the habit of covering toilet before flushing. it will at least prevent 69% of fecal matter going airborne with each flush. the worst are those squat toilets with a water hose to wash your karchng kang. airborne fecal matter is all over the cubicle and waiting for the next user to squat to get permeated.
Amoy Gardens also spread like fire as Sai infected air flew around the whole block.
Environmental conditions: sewerage system
In Amoy Gardens, each block has eight vertical soil stacks, each collecting waste matter from the same unit of all floors and connected with the water closets, the basins, the bathtubs and the bathroom floor drains. Each of the sanitary fixtures is fitted with a U-shaped water trap (U-trap) to prevent foul smell and insects in the soil pipe from entering the toilets. For this preventive mechanism to function properly, the water traps must be sufficiently filled with water.
Interviews with the Amoy Gardens residents revealed frequent complaints about foul smell in the toilets, which suggest that the U-trap arrangement might not be functioning properly in some units. Since the basins and the bathtubs were frequently used, their U-traps should be charged with water and should have been functioning properly. However, as most households had the habit of cleaning the bathroom floor by mopping instead of flushing it with water, the U-traps connected to most floor drains were likely to be dry and would not have been functioning properly.
In tests carried out in one of the units in block E, it was show that when the exhaust fan in the bathroom was switched on, there was a reflux of air from the soil pipe into the bathroom through the floor drain. It is hence possible that the reflux could have contained droplets of contaminated sewage present in the soil pipe, be dispersed into the bathroom, and be extracted by the bathroom exhaust fan into the light well between adjacent units. The contaminated droplets could then enter other units through open windows.
In addition, tests detected leakage from a sewer vent pipe 2 at the 4/F of block E, and was confirmed by a large visible crack. The cracked sewer vent pipe could have emitted droplets carrying contaminated sewage into the light well every time a toilet was flushed.
Environmental conditions: sewerage system
In Amoy Gardens, each block has eight vertical soil stacks, each collecting waste matter from the same unit of all floors and connected with the water closets, the basins, the bathtubs and the bathroom floor drains. Each of the sanitary fixtures is fitted with a U-shaped water trap (U-trap) to prevent foul smell and insects in the soil pipe from entering the toilets. For this preventive mechanism to function properly, the water traps must be sufficiently filled with water.
Interviews with the Amoy Gardens residents revealed frequent complaints about foul smell in the toilets, which suggest that the U-trap arrangement might not be functioning properly in some units. Since the basins and the bathtubs were frequently used, their U-traps should be charged with water and should have been functioning properly. However, as most households had the habit of cleaning the bathroom floor by mopping instead of flushing it with water, the U-traps connected to most floor drains were likely to be dry and would not have been functioning properly.
In tests carried out in one of the units in block E, it was show that when the exhaust fan in the bathroom was switched on, there was a reflux of air from the soil pipe into the bathroom through the floor drain. It is hence possible that the reflux could have contained droplets of contaminated sewage present in the soil pipe, be dispersed into the bathroom, and be extracted by the bathroom exhaust fan into the light well between adjacent units. The contaminated droplets could then enter other units through open windows.
In addition, tests detected leakage from a sewer vent pipe 2 at the 4/F of block E, and was confirmed by a large visible crack. The cracked sewer vent pipe could have emitted droplets carrying contaminated sewage into the light well every time a toilet was flushed.
No need to wash, just use your finger to dig clean, then scribble some shitty messages on the cubicle wall.
super nauseating if the toilet vent is in the ceiling sucking up air from everywhere underneath, especially the fecal cloud from the toilet bowl.
and then bite the nails?
are you willing to add a sig line?
now no longer eatshitndie but smellshitndie also?
Will fecal cloud rain solid?
Tiongs are the scums of the earth side by side with Mozzies. But for time being they are hogging the limelight
how come the driver never horn when the sai come out?
Wife immune to husband's fart after many decades, so not infected by sars.
They were called super-infectors!
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