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...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...
Excerpted in the New Yorker three months before it was published as a book, biologist Rachel Carson's eloquent, rigorous attack on the overuse of DDT and other pesticides--she called them "elixirs of death"--had already upset the chemical industry. Velsicol, maker of two top bug killers, threatened to sue the book's publisher, Houghton Mifflin, which stood firm but asked a toxicologist to recheck Carson's facts before it shipped Silent Spring to bookstores...
...night, at least nine people had died, one of them an American businessman traveling in Asia. The World Health Organization issued a rare emergency travel advisory after receiving reports of at least 150 cases. Meanwhile, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta were scrambling to identify the bug before...