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The World Health Organization, WHO, says it is starting a special fund to combat SARS, primarily in mainland China and Hong Kong more »
European countries are to step up checks on air passengers arriving from countries affected by the Sars virus more »
Kazakh Prime Minister during a government session on 29 April ordered that a special program of urgent measures be drawn up to prevent the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome more »
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Fear of SARS led to the headmistress of Harrogate Ladies’ College yesterday locking herself in a boarding house with 43 of her pupils more »
Some of the starkest early reports about the deadly SARS pneumonia came not from health authorities, but from Internet discussions in which emergency-room physicians swapped details about the start of the epidemic more »
Officials say 53 now have died; WHO experts study possible animal link to mystery disease more »
The construction of the Yuri Gagarin Space Station would require 3-3.5 years more »
Three Taiwan public health experts have traveled to mainland China to join their counterparts from other countries in surveying the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) there more »