Vice-Minister of Health Gao Qiang (R) meets Director General of Taiwan Province's Center of Disease Control, Dr. Ih-Jeb after the opening of the WHO's first global conference on SARS in Kuala Lumpur on June 17, 2003.

Vice-Minister of Health Gao Qiang (R) meets Director General of Taiwan Province's Center of Disease Control, Dr. Ih-Jeb after the opening of the WHO's first global conference on SARS in Kuala Lumpur on June 17, 2003. About 1,300 scientists, medical experts and public health officials are expected to participate in the two-day conference. [Reuters]