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Suspected SARS case confirmed ( 2004-01-05 16:52) (newsphoto.com.cn)
A policeman confiscates civet cats at a wild
animal market in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province, January 5,
2004. On Monday China's Health Ministry confirmed the first SARS case on
the Chinese mainland since last July in Guangdong, planning to eliminate
about 10,000 civets and to close wild animal markets to remove a possible
source for the fatal disease. [newsphoto.com.cn]
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Guangdong police confiscate civet cats at a
wild animals market. [newsphoto.com.cn]
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Feng Liuxiang, Deputy Director-General of the
Health Department of Guangdong Province, speaks during a news conference
on the latest SARS situation in Guangzhou, January 5, 2004.
[newsphoto.com.cn]
Henk Bekedam, World Health Organization
representative in China, expresses his confidence about traveling within
the country at a news conference in Beijing, Jan 5, 2004. The WHO on
Monday urged the Chinese government to be cautious in its planned mass
slaughter of civet cats in an anti-SARS measure, saying a reckless culling
could eliminate evidence of the origins of the disease.
[newsphoto.com.cn]
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