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Outbreaks of severe pneumonia in southern China, Vietnam and Hong Kong have prompted an alert from international health officials, who are scrambling to determine the cause of the potentially fatal
Governments on three continents worked to contain a deadly and highly contagious respiratory illness, as questions were raised about whether China and Vietnam missed opportunities to enlist broader
Warnings don't come much scarier than this. The World Health Organization has called a new form of pneumonia, which started spreading in China's Guangdong province last November a
China's response to a mysterious respiratory illness continues to alarm scientists, amid disclosures that more than half of the recent cases world-wide trace back to within its orders and that the
Scientists say they have devised a rudimentary blood test for the virus suspected of causing a new form of pneumonia, as the disease surfaced in several parts of the U.S. and crimped travel flows to
The respiratory disease that is the subject of a world-wide alert apparently infected passengers on board a flight to Beijing from Hong Kong, the first such case that has been documented. Hong Kong
The battle to control a mystery bug intensified as Singapore shut it schools, Hong Kong mulled plans for quarantine and China started to provide information that could help trace a deadly sickness
A new type of atypical pneumonia dubbed Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome continues to spread globally, with 1316 cases and 48 deaths reported so far, most of them in China and Hong Kong. Despite the
Merck & Co. and Aventis SA are combining their two most promising AIDS vaccines candidates in a joint human test in the U.S. that will begin later this year. For reasons neither company understands,
Hong Kong is a city suddenly gripped with fear. An outbreak of severe pneumonia that has jumped from person to person, spread around the world by air travelers, has turned a once self-confident
