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...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advise that you postpone all elective travel to Hong Kong, mainland China, Hanoi, Vietnam and Singapore. The World Health Organization has issued a similar travel advisory asking people to steer clear of Guangdong province and Hong Kong. Toronto, however, should...
...acute respiratory syndrome--began emerging from mainland China a month ago, health authorities around the world have gone on high alert. For the first time in its 55-year history, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended last week that travelers avoid nonessential trips to an entire region--China's Guangdong province and Hong Kong, right next door--for fear that they might contract and further spread the infectious agent...
...secrecy of the Chinese government, health officials could have acted a lot earlier. It was back in November that a mysterious respiratory illness began spreading through the southern province of Guangdong. Officials hushed up the outbreak to prevent panic, and by February at least 305 Guangdong residents had developed SARS, according to Chinese officials. More cases are thought to have appeared in Beijing and other cities. By the time China finally turned in a two-page report to WHO a month later, the disease was already on the move...
...vaccine against the coronavirus is already under development. And epidemiologists in Asia, Europe and North America are piecing together the natural history of SARS. That last effort should be made a lot easier with the Chinese government's decision last week to finally let a who team into Guangdong. Medical detectives may have already found the very first recorded victim - patient zero - a man in the city of Foshan who passed the virus on to four other people before he recovered...
...home villages to celebrate the grave-sweeping holiday honoring their ancestors. "If only one is a superspreader, then here we go again," frets Meirion Evans, one of the WHO's five-person SARS team, which was confined to Beijing for nearly a week before it was finally allowed into Guangdong last Thursday...