The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome that has been spreading in Asia and other parts has made people paranoid, and finally China is giving more information about it, which seemed to have emerged last November in Guangdong. According to my parents in Hong Kong, it seems like the cases have been isolated to a hospital in the New Territories. Nonetheless, the World Health Organization issued a global alert. Yesterday's Times says that people passing through HK seem to be the main ones afflicted.
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