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sombrefanExcerps from today's World Health Organisation press briefing
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/notes/2003/np7/en/
As a result of ongoing assessments as to the nature of outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Beijing and Shanxi Province, China, and in Toronto, Canada, WHO is now recommending, as a measure of precaution, that persons planning to travel to these destinations consider postponing all but essential travel. This temporary advice, which is an extension of travel advice previously issued for Guangdong Province and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China, will be reassessed in three weeks time.
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Using the same criteria, WHO has assessed the SARS situation in Toronto, Canada. The outbreak in this area has continued to grow in magnitude and has affected groups outside the initial risk groups of hospital workers, their families and other close person-to-person contacts, although all the cases reported have identified links to known SARS cases. In addition, a small number of persons with SARS, now in other countries in the world, appear to have acquired the infection while in Toronto. On the basis of this information, WHO is also including Toronto in the extension of its SARS-related travel advice.
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I just watched a medical expert on the news who says the SARS crisis should be taken out of the hands of the health bureaucrats and the WHO and it should be sorted out at a summit level i.e. Bush, Blair and Chirac etc.
I think he has a point.
I think it may be too late before this happens.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/notes/2003/np7/en/
As a result of ongoing assessments as to the nature of outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Beijing and Shanxi Province, China, and in Toronto, Canada, WHO is now recommending, as a measure of precaution, that persons planning to travel to these destinations consider postponing all but essential travel. This temporary advice, which is an extension of travel advice previously issued for Guangdong Province and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China, will be reassessed in three weeks time.
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Using the same criteria, WHO has assessed the SARS situation in Toronto, Canada. The outbreak in this area has continued to grow in magnitude and has affected groups outside the initial risk groups of hospital workers, their families and other close person-to-person contacts, although all the cases reported have identified links to known SARS cases. In addition, a small number of persons with SARS, now in other countries in the world, appear to have acquired the infection while in Toronto. On the basis of this information, WHO is also including Toronto in the extension of its SARS-related travel advice.
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I just watched a medical expert on the news who says the SARS crisis should be taken out of the hands of the health bureaucrats and the WHO and it should be sorted out at a summit level i.e. Bush, Blair and Chirac etc.
I think he has a point.
I think it may be too late before this happens.
