CHINA. The World Health Organization has said China has succeeded in containing the latest outbreak of the SARS virus. In a statement WHO said no new SARS infections had been reported in China for more than three weeks.
The first outbreak of the pneumonia-like illness killed nearly 800 people worldwide, having first appeared in China 18 months ago. Nine cases were diagnosed this year.
SARS emerged again last month when two researchers at Beijing’s Institute of Virology contracted the disease.
WHO said it still did not know exactly how the latest outbreak began. But in a statement yesterday it said: “The chain of human-to-human transmission appears to have been broken.”
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