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25 Feb 2006:
Iain Hollingshead: It has all been bird flu this week, but it is not so long since the spectre of a Sars pandemic was hogging the headlines. Severe acute respiratory syndrome is a pneumonia-like coronavirus that first emerged in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong in November 2002.
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21 Jul 2004:
The Chinese military surgeon who exposed the government's cover-up of the Sars crisis was released yesterday after seven weeks of "political re-education", his family said.
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6 Jul 2004: China admits interned doctor is being held for 'educating'.
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5 May 2004: Three suspected cases of Sars in Beijing have now been confirmed, taking the number of victims of the latest outbreak to nine, China's health ministry said yesterday.
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30 Apr 2004: A 53-year-old Chinese woman who died last week in a suspected Sars case was confirmed today to have had the virus, China's health ministry announced.
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30 Apr 2004: China reported two new cases of Sars yesterday amid growing fears that the Labour Day holiday would be disrupted again. One woman was in a critical condition as the authorities quarantined 700 people in Beijing.
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29 Apr 2004: China today confirmed two more Sars cases, doubling the number of infected people linked to the Beijing laboratory believed to be at the centre of the latest small outbreak of the viral disease.
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26 Apr 2004: China was scrambling yesterday to control a fresh outbreak of Sars after the first reported death from the virus since last year's crisis which killed more than 700 people worldwide.
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8 Mar 2004: A military doctor who exposed China's Sars cover-up last year was questioned today over the leaking of a letter he wrote to his country's leaders about their handling of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, which left many hundreds of people dead.
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30 Jan 2004: Scientists have today published "disturbing" evidence of how the Sars virus jumped from the animal kingdom and evolved into a deadly human infection.
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25 Jan 2004: Bird flu is spreading across south-east Asia and could soon pose a far worse threat to humans than Sars, UN officials said yesterday.
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15 Jan 2004: The bird flu ravaging several east Asian countries - and which has been blamed for the deaths of at least three Vietnamese people - could precipitate a more serious global health crisis than Sars if it spreads by human contact, the World Health Organisation warned yesterday.
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13 Jan 2004: A second new case of Sars was confirmed in China today, fuelling fear of a resurgence of the disease that swept through the region last year.
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13 Jan 2004:
Suspect passengers may face being stopped at airports.
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10 Jan 2004: South-east Asia has been on edge this week following the confirmation on Monday of China's first Sars case in more than six months.
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