ESSAY
"Killer Flu Strain Spreads"

Categories

Peter VanBuskirk

March 18, 2003

World

Science

Health

China

SARS

Natural determinism

Excerpt (first and last two sentences)
"The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has issued the first global health alert in a decade due to a spreading atypical pneumonia called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (S.A.R.S.) The disease, which is spread directly from person to person, has infected nearly 500 people and killed at least nine people worldwide....
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When Legionnaire's disease stuck in Philadelphia in 1976, it took six months to identify the causative bacterium.  It took four years to figure out that HIV causes AIDS."

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