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Silent For Too Long
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When a medical team from the World Health Organization (WHO) met with
China's Vice Premier Wu Yi on April 9, members hoped they had found an
ally in their efforts to get bureaucrats to come clean on the extent of
the mainland's SARS epidemic. The Communist Party's most senior woman,
Wu is a tough, gray-haired former trade negotiator, and she understood
that the free exchange of information on the disease, believed to have
originated in China, could help WHO investigators prevent a global
pandemic. Wu said she had personally dispatched crews to two...