Word: bug
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...backfiring spectacularly with SARS, which has burst out of China's national boundary to kill 119 people and infect 2,960 people worldwide by the end of last week. And even as the deadly pneumonia proliferates across the world--Africa is the latest continent afflicted with the bug--China continues to massively underreport its SARS epidemic. As late as last Saturday, China's health authorities continued to stick to an accounting of 60 SARS deaths and about 1,300 cases--even though China's Premier Wen Jiabao visited You'an Hospital, where medical staff say the full caseload there...
...China's Failing Health System Travel: SARS Flightmares SARS Riots: Quarantine Blues China: SARS is 'Make or Break' Is SARS Getting Deadlier? Beating Back the Bug China: SARS Nation Guangdong: Beating SARS? Hong Kong: System Failure Shanghai SARS Cases 'Secret' Viruses: Hard to Kill Hong Kong: Keep on Scrubbing...
...China's Failing Health System Travel: SARS Flightmares SARS Riots: Quarantine Blues China: SARS is 'Make or Break' Is SARS Getting Deadlier? Beating Back the Bug China: SARS Nation Guangdong: Beating SARS? Hong Kong: System Failure Shanghai SARS Cases 'Secret' Viruses: Hard to Kill Hong Kong: Keep on Scrubbing...
...from past episodes of stonewalling during disease outbreaks. In faraway Washington, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson briefed President George W. Bush and showed him photos of the coronavirus most likely responsible, causing the President to add SARS to the official U.S. quarantine list?the first new bug to win that dubious honor in 20 years...
...China's Failing Health System Travel: SARS Flightmares SARS Riots: Quarantine Blues China: SARS is 'Make or Break' Is SARS Getting Deadlier? Beating Back the Bug China: SARS Nation Guangdong: Beating SARS? Hong Kong: System Failure Shanghai SARS Cases 'Secret' Viruses: Hard to Kill Hong Kong: Keep on Scrubbing...