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April 04, 2003

INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS

"China Says Disease Is in Check"

Washington Post (www.washingtonpost.com) (04/04/03) P. A15; Pomfret, John

Chinese Health Minister Zhang Wen-Kang is encouraging tourism and business travel in China, despite a World Health Organization (WHO) advisory against visits to southern China, and he says that the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is under control there.  The WHO reports that at least 2,279 people in 17 nations have been infected with SARS and 79 have died.  The WHO has recommended that travelers avoid Hong Kong and China's Guangdong province, and WHO researchers have begun working in Guangdong to investigate SARS' origins.  WHO spokesman Chris Powell says that fewer people in Guangdong are getting sick, according to Chinese government figures.  Foreign health professionals say that China did not move fast enough to report SARS cases or warn other nations and Hong Kong about the disease.

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