China wields quarantine to control flu
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June 22, 2009 by fluoutbreak
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Chinese authorities tracked down Los Angeles resident Mike Su recently at a networking banquet in Beijing. They forced him to pack his bags, then whisked him to a budget hotel on the edge of the city where they detained him for a week.
Su’s crime?
On his flight from Los Angeles, the Web-site director had the misfortune of sitting near someone alleged to have contracted H1N1 flu.
“I felt like I was going to prison,” said Su, 33. “I read the headlines in the news, but I never thought I’d be the guy who gets quarantined.”
The detention meant Su didn’t get a chance to strike deals in China for his company, Beverly Hills-based Break Media. He never exhibited signs of illness.
In the two months since H1N1 flu first emerged, China continues to wield some of the toughest controls to combat the spread of the recently designated pandemic. Those include denying visas to travelers from countries where the virus is prevalent, screening airline passengers and enforcing quarantines.
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