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The fleet of ambulances from the China-Japan Friendship Hospital started
their engines last Monday and dispersed into Beijing's smog-filled
traffic. Inside the vehicles was a deadly secret: 31 coughing, shivering
hospital workers who had caught severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
from their patients. Riding alongside were nurses who recoiled at each
contagious breath their dangerous charges exhaled. As the white vans
took a leisurely tour of the Chinese capital, a team of experts from the
World Health Organization (WHO) walked into the China-Japan Friendship
Hospital, hoping at last to gain a more accurate...