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When a medical team from the World Health Organization (WHO) met with China's Vice Premier Wu Yi on April 9, members hoped they had found an ally in their efforts to get bureaucrats to come clean on the extent of the mainland's SARS epidemic. The Communist Party's most senior woman, Wu is a tough, gray-haired former trade negotiator, and she understood that the free exchange of information on the disease, believed to have originated in China, could help WHO investigators prevent a global pandemic. Wu said she had personally dispatched crews to two provinces to investigate...
...When the crisis began, Beijing's top concern was ensuring economic growth. Propaganda departments barred the media from covering the outbreak, worried that word of a mysterious new disease spreading on the mainland would crush commerce. In his first comments on the disease?coming five months after the initial signs of the illness?Minister of Health Zhang Wenkang on April 3 scoffed at the WHO's warnings to avoid travel in southern China, believed to be the source of SARS. "It is perfectly safe to come to China to work, travel and hold business meetings," he insisted...
...FLUNG SHANXI PROVINCE, WHICH has reported more SARS cases than anywhere in mainland China except for Guangdong, Beijing's latest directives, including one stipulating that all needy SARS victims receive subsidized medical care, have yet to make a difference. In the sooty provincial capital of Taiyuan, where the average monthly income is just $60, the family of an infected student surnamed Han has had to fork over $240 in medical fees for four days' care. "The government has underinvested in health in the last 20 years, leaving it to individuals to pay the bills," says Bekedam...
...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...
Since news of the first cases of SARS--short for severe 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...