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Anti-SARS Symposium Continues in Beijing

Over 300 experts from around the world gathered since Thursday to forge closer ties in the scientific community to advance the technology for identifying SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and developing a vaccine against it.


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Over 300 experts from around the world gathered here since Thursday to forge closer ties in the scientific community to advance the technology for identifying SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and developing a vaccine against it.

The international anti-SARS symposium has drawn representatives from the World Health Organization (WHO) and 19 countries including the United States, Australia and Canada.

Henk Bekedam, the WHO China representative, expressed his appreciation to health and medical workers both in China and worldwide for their dedicated work fighting the disease and said international co-operation is more important than competition.

Speaking at Thursday's opening ceremony of the symposium, StateCouncilor Chen Zhili spoke of the considerable contribution that Chinese scientists had made to combating the virus, new in mankind.

But despite all the efforts to date, greater ones are needed tofind more reliable and early diagnostic methods for SARS and to develop a vaccine against the disease, said Chen.


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