ESSAY
"The SARS Epidemic"

Categories

David Smith

April 1, 2003

World

National

Politics

Science

Technology

Health

China

Deaths

SARS

Natural determinism

Excerpt (first and last two sentences)
"Recent Health news around the world has been almost exclusively focused on the progression of a mystery virus that currently has over 2500 reported cases in at least 17 countries.  These numbers are very alarming for members of the World Health Organization as they struggle to understand the virus’ nature and origin....
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No matter what precautions are taken to prevent the spread,  this virus is serving as a reminder to the world that our technology has not won all of the battles that nature has presented to us.  It is even more interesting to think about the prospect of whether or not such battles can ever be won by technology and science."

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