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  China has attached great importance to the control of atypical pneumonia, known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and is able to curb the spread of the disease.
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Guangdong's last SARS patients bid farewell to hospital
The No. 6 ward of the Guangzhou Municipal Institute of Respiratory Diseases was brimming with joy and laughter when the last three severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) patients in south China's Guangdong province were discharged Wednesday morning.

Shoppers buy up big on healthcare
Chinese consumers have spent more time and money on their health and outdoor activities in response to the SARS outbreak.

Independent trip to HK, Macao approved
Residents of Foshan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen and Dongguan in Guangdong Province will be able to visit Hong Kong and Macao on their own -- without joining a tour group -- from July 28.

 
Wang Xiaoli answers questions from reporters as she is discharged from a Guangzhou hospital in South China's Guangdong Wednesday, July 2, 2003. Wang is one of the last three severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) patients who were discharged from hospitals Wednesday in Guangdong. The province, one of the hardest-hit regions in the world, had a total of 1,512 SARS cases and 58 deaths. [newsphoto.com.cn]

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Antibody could block SARS infection - study( 2004-02-04 16:40)
WHO: Investigate into sources of SARS cases( 2004-02-01 09:38)
China's Ministry of Health announced on Saturday a new confirmed case of SARS in southern Guangdong Province, and the World Health Organization urged China to undertake an urgent investigation into the sources of infection for the recent Guangdong cases.
WHO takes Toronto off SARS list( 2003-07-03 09:30)
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday removed Canada's Toronto from the list of areas affected by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
Beijing foreign students graduate on time( 2003-07-03 09:30)
Forty-five foreign students studying at Beijing Language and Culture University graduated on schedule Wednesday.
Subsidies given to farmers hit by SARS impact( 2003-07-01 07:05)
Beijing authority is taking more steps to help local farmers recover from the impact of the recent SARS outbreak.

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Medical workers in action ...
Funeral held for medical martyr who died in fight against SARS( 2003-05-30 10:35)
More than one thousand Beijingers, including many medical workers, attended a funeral in Beijing Thursday, paying their last respect to Wang Jing, a nurse who died at her post in the front-line fight against SARS.
Health care worker killed by SARS rests in Gallant Garden( 2003-05-29 15:15)
Tang Heung-may, a front-line health care assistant who had been killed by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) disease when treating patients, was put to rest in Gallant Garden on Thursday.
Mainland medicine experts help SARS curement in HK ( 2003-05-29 10:39)
Two medicine (CM) experts from the Chinese mainland have helped cure SARS patients here in Hong Kong, the Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food Yeoh Eng-kiong told the Legislative Council Wednesday.
Ding cares for patients until the end( 2003-05-26 10:35)
For the medical staff at the People's Hospital of Peking University in Beijing, 49-year-old Ding Xiulan was their role model.
Doctor Liang faces killer flu bravely( 2003-05-26 10:35)
Liang Shikui was the deputy director of the Emergency Treatment Department of Shanxi People's Hospital in Taiyuan, capital city of North China's Shanxi Province.

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WHO Experts in china ...
WHO experts touring North China( 2003-06-18 10:24)
A 12-member joint working group composed of experts from the World Health organization (WHO) and officials from China's Health Ministry arrived in Hohhot, capital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous region yesterday on a 10-day tour to see first-hand the SARS control and treatment measures being taken in North China and other disease-hit areas.The experts, who had their body temperatures taken upon arrival at the airport and their hotel, spoke positively of the practice.
WHO Head: SARS stopped dead( 2003-06-18 10:24)
World Health Organization says the worst is over in the battle against SARS after an unprecedented battle worldwide has helped contain the disease.
WHO experts visit north China's Inner Mongolia( 2003-06-18 10:24)
A 12-member joint working group composed of experts from the World Health organization (WHO) and officials from China's Health Ministry arrived here Tuesday on a 10-day survey to witness SARS control and treatment work in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.These experts, who had their body temperatures taken upon arrival at the airport and their hotel, spoke positively of the practice.
WHO experts visit north China's Shanxi province( 2003-06-18 10:24)
An 11-member joint working group composed of WHO experts and officials from the Chinese Ministry of Health arrived here Tuesday afternoon on a 10-day study tour to witness severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) prevention work in Shanxi province.The World Health Organization (WHO), lifted last Friday the travel warning against Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia, all in north China.
WHO official praises HK, mainland for SARS battling efforts ( 2003-06-16 15:43)
World Health Organization (WHO)'s Executive Director for Communicable Diseases Dr. David Heymann praised the Hong Kong government Sunday for its transparent systems and efforts to fight severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic.

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Glodal Efforts ...
Antibody could block SARS infection - study( 2004-02-04 16:40)
WHO takes Toronto off SARS list( 2003-07-03 09:30)
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday removed Canada's Toronto from the list of areas affected by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
WHO: Full recovery of SARS averages 85 percent( 2003-06-18 14:50)
The full recovery of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in the world averages 85 percent while the case fatality rate is various by age group, an official of the World Health Organization (WHO) told a conference in Malaysia on Wednesday.
WHO official urges continued surveillance on SARS( 2003-06-18 14:50)
A senior World Health Organization (WHO) official warned here Wednesday that health workers should remain vigilant on severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) despite the number of probable SARS cases is declining in the world.
Canada's tourism affected by SARS outbreaks ( 2003-06-16 15:38)
Outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) since early March have cost Canada's tourism industry almost 216 million US dollars in lost business sofar, a new study said Thursday.

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During his visit to Amoy Gardens in Hong Kong Monday, Premier Wen Jiabao holds a three-month-old baby boy whose mother died of SARS. The virus, which killed nearly 300 people in Hong Kong, hit Amoy Gardens the hardest of all the residential apartment blocks in the region. [newsphoto.com.cn]

A Korean tourist group comprising 60 sightseers arrives at the Beijing Capital International Airport on June 30, 2003, the first such group the city has received since the outbreak of SARS two months ago. Last week, the World Health Organization has removed Beijing and other Chinese mainland areas from SARS-affected areas. [newsphoto.com.cn]

Beijing's nurses and residents queue up for copies of a new pictorial collection entitled "Fighting SARS", Sunday, June 29, 2003, which was made available Sunday. The photo album includes a collection of 200 special photos by some 100 Chinese and foreign press-photographers to chronicle China's efforts against SARS.[newsphoto.com.cn]

Jubilant tourists prepare to board buses outside the Beijing Exhibition Hall, for a local sightseeing tour organized yesterday following the World Health Organization's lifting of its SARS-prompted travel advisory against Beijing.[newsphoto.com.cn]

Staff at the Dongan Market on Wangfujing Street celebrate Beijing's victory over SARS June 24. The World Health Organization Tuesday removed Beijing from its list of SARS-infected areas and lifted a travel advisory against the city.[newsphoto.com.cn]

Liu Rui (left), a 25-year-old nurse, gives a victory salute as her train pulls out of Beijing West Railway Station en route for Lanzhou Monday evening. Liu was among 98 medics from the No 451 Hospital in Lanzhou, northwestern Gansu Province, recruited to work in Beijing's Xiaotangshan Anti-SARS Hospital. All of the 1,300 doctors and nurses transferred from around the country left Beijing for their working units in the army on Monday after fulfilling their missions to combat SARS outbreak. [Xinhua]

Hong Yun (Center), one of the last recovered SARS patients in Beijing's Xiaotangshan Hospital, poses for the camera after being released from the facility June 20, 2003. Standing beside Hong are several family members, who came to greet her and medical staff at the hospital, which discharged its last 18 patients on Friday. [newsphoto.com.cn]

Passengers pour off a train at Beijing Railway Station June 17, 2003. Effective containment of severe acute respiratory syndrome has encouraged people, mostly migrant workers, to travel back to the capital again. [newsphoto.com.cn]
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