A medical professor in Hong Kong feels quarantine efforts there are coming too late.

"If isolation is effective to control the spread of the disease, we can say this decision came too late," he said. "And who can say for sure who should be isolated?"

A 33 story apartment building in HK has been sealed off, with 240 people inside, 213 of whom have SARS symptoms.The Women's World Hockey Championship, scheduled for Beijing starting this week, has been cancelled.

"The Canadian, American and Finnish teams had all delayed travel to the tournament over SARS fears.

Switzerland, Sweden, Russia and Germany were already in Beijing for this year's championships. On Sunday, the IIHF advised all four squads to return home as soon as possible."

Now, if one team member happened to get infected while there...