Plague

21 May 2013

Racism and colonial superiority form the core themes of this exhibition about Hong Kong's bouts of sickness and epidemic over the past century.

12:02PM

Tibet plague alert for travellers

2 Oct 2008

Hong Kong travellers to Tibet have been advised to take precautions against pneumonic plague, a highly contagious bacterial infection. The Centre for Health Protection issued the advisory...

4:13AM

Double dose of divergent storytellers

23 Jul 2006

Geraldine Brooks, fresh from winning this year's Pulitzer Prize for her novel March, and fellow author Melina Marchetta arrive in Shanghai looking only a shade bewildered by the city's bustle...

12:03AM

Middle Ages plagues tied to genetic Aids immunity

12 Mar 2005

About 10 per cent of Europeans enjoy a natural protection against Aids because of plague outbreaks that engulfed the continent in the Middle Ages, British scientists say.

7:11AM

Brave villagers battle deadly disease

27 Nov 2003

In 1665, London was in the grip of the most terrible outbreak of disease the city had ever seen. Bubonic plague was systematically killing thousands of Londoners and the civic authorities were...

7:58PM

Co-operation vital in disease fight

14 Mar 2003

In the modern era, we pride ourselves for having vanquished a host of diseases and maladies that plagued our more ignorant forbearers for centuries. But our primal fear of sudden physical ailment...

9:34AM

Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

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4:18AM

Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

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4:27AM

Plagues worse than imagined

God is in heaven, listening to a presentation from the chairangel of the Great Plagues Department. After a few minutes, He interrupts, failing to hide a trace of peevishness: 'Yes, yes, Gabby, but...

7:35PM

Poster plague

I would like to use these columns to beg the answer to the thorny question of whether or not it is actually illegal for property agents, or their agents, to staple advertising posters on to the...

2:06PM

No plague, just blight

Despite the initial panic, the inflammations and itching suffered by residents of Kai Lok Temporary Housing Area turned out not to be symptoms of plague. For that we should be truly thankful.

9:58AM

Plague outbreak well under control in India

I AM a Hong Kong-based Indian businessman.

I visited India between September 25 and October 1, that is, at the height of the plague scare and feel that many people have...

7:26PM

Flight ban over plague

RECENT visitors to India are being barred from flights between Hong Kong and China after mainland authorities said they would be refused entry because of India's plague outbreak. Airlines are...

6:43PM

Pneumonic plague's fast strike

DEATH is almost inevitable for someone with pneumonic plague, unless the disease is diagnosed and treated early. Those who are infected struggle for each laboured breath between bouts of severe...

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