Zapping SARS
April 25, 2003
Hong Kong's government recently countered an Internet rumor about the spread of SARS by sending millions of corrective announcements via cell phone text messages. Thus was a panic, fueled by high-tech communications technology, defused by an even higher tech solution. Xeni Jardin wrote about the phenomenon for Wired News. She talks to Brooke about how people in the Far East are using text-messaging technologies to cope with SARS.
