The SARS Epidemic: Toronto; Canada Increases Pressure On World Health Organization To Lift Travel Advisory

By CLIFFORD KRAUSS (NYT) 860 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 8 , Column 1

LEAD PARAGRAPH - Canada ratcheted up the pressure today to persuade the World Health Organization to reverse its advisory to travelers to avoid Toronto because of the outbreak of the highly contagious respiratory disease known as SARS.

''We all believe that the World Health Organization came to the wrong conclusion,'' said Prime Minister Jean Chrétien in a nationally televised news conference today after returning from a week's vacation in the Dominican Republic.
 

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