SHOOT: This guy effectively found himself isolated and incarcerated. It got so hot becuase they had even sealed off the air to his cell and were checking on him through windows. If you follow the nomenclature, people thought to be infected with H1N1 are being called 'suspects', which is a criminal term. Perhaps 'patients' would be better. 'Infected' is a less politically biased term, but still inappropriate in my view.
BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhuanet) -- A Spaniard suspected of having swine flu was quarantined in a prisoners ward after the doctor learned he was on a holiday in Mexico. The man had gone to the hospital to complain of a rash. He was confined for three days and warned that if he tried to leave he could face legal action under rules to control epidemics, Spanish newspaper El Pais said, quoting the man.
The rules came into effect in Spain in response to a flu virus that has killed 26 people in Mexico.
The man was referred to Madrid's Carlos III hospital immediately after the doctor learned the man had been to Mexico. The staff in Carlos III hospital were so afraid of the virus that they instructed the patient on how to take his own temperature from behind a window.
The man said he suffered because of the heating in his room, which had the windows permanently locked.
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