ESSAY
"SARS Insecurity"
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Excerpt (first and last two sentences)
"What started
as a strange but not terribly serious flu outbreak in Southeast Asia has quickly
become, only over the past month, a “worldwide health threat,” as the World
Health Organization (W.H.O.) called the illness, now known as severe acute
respiratory syndrome, SARS for short. The W.H.O. has established laboratories
in more than nine countries, all devoted to finding the virus that causes this
illness....
...It has been said that “officials at the [World Health Organization]
cannot recall the last time the agency has issued a global alert for an acute
outbreak of a disease.” Many in society have just come to realize that this
illness is far more perilous and serious than previously thought."