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Chinese Swine Flu Torture

A post from Double X writer KJ Dell'Antonia:

Last Friday, the State Department issued a travel alert for China, citing “random” swine flu quarantine measures and noting that the U.S. Embassy will be “unable to influence the duration of stay in quarantine.” Not everyone listened, and among the approximately 200 U.S. citizens currently quarantined in China, you’ll find me; my 7-, 5-, and 3- year olds; my mother; and my husband, who—against all odds, according to our docs at home—actually caught it from someone seated behind him on the plane... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)