WHO Team Arrives in China to Investigate SARS

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WHO Team Arrives in China to Investigate SARS

Four WHO experts arrived in Guangdong province after days of waiting to investigate how severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, began its worldwide spread.

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Four WHO experts arrived in Guangdong province after days of waiting to investigate how severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, began its worldwide spread.

A medical team from the World Health Organization has arrived in southern China for the first international inspection of the region where a mystery flu-like epidemic was first reported.

Four WHO experts arrived in Guangdong province after days of waiting to investigate how severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, began its worldwide spread.

Meanwhile, a few miles away in Hong Kong, the regional government has toughened enforcement of quarantine rules to curb the disease.

Local authorities were searching for 16 people who failed to report to health officials under a quarantine order.

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