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Last Updated Fri, 04 Apr 2003 11:29:31
FOSHAN, CHINA - China apologized Friday for not doing a better job of warning people about severe acute respiratory syndrome.
INDEPTH: SARS: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
The admission came as an international team started work in Foshan, the city where the mysterious illness may have started.
The Chinese Centre for Disease Control said the country's medical departments and mass media did a poor job publicizing the outbreak.
Downplayed outbreak
China has downplayed the extent of SARS that has killed at least 46 and infected at least 1,191 in China.
The apology is an abrupt reversal for China. On Thursday, Zhang Wenkang, China's Minister for Public Health, defended how China handled information on the disease.
"China has given public notices of this epidemic to Chinese people and to the world at appropriate times, in light of our national conditions and our law," said Zhang.
In fact, the Chinese media were ordered not to report or to underplay the seriousness of the SARS outbreak.
FROM APRIL 3, 2003: Beijing ordered media to cover up SARS
Meanwhile, World Health Organization investigators have begun work in Foshan, in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, where they think the outbreak started.
They hope to interview a man who is the first known person infected.
The unidentified man passed the disease to four other people. He survived and has since been released from hospital.
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Last Updated Fri, 04 Apr 2003 11:29:31
FOSHAN, CHINA - China apologized Friday for not doing a better job of warning people about severe acute respiratory syndrome.
INDEPTH: SARS: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
The admission came as an international team started work in Foshan, the city where the mysterious illness may have started.
The Chinese Centre for Disease Control said the country's medical departments and mass media did a poor job publicizing the outbreak.
Downplayed outbreak
China has downplayed the extent of SARS that has killed at least 46 and infected at least 1,191 in China.
The apology is an abrupt reversal for China. On Thursday, Zhang Wenkang, China's Minister for Public Health, defended how China handled information on the disease.
"China has given public notices of this epidemic to Chinese people and to the world at appropriate times, in light of our national conditions and our law," said Zhang.
In fact, the Chinese media were ordered not to report or to underplay the seriousness of the SARS outbreak.
FROM APRIL 3, 2003: Beijing ordered media to cover up SARS
Meanwhile, World Health Organization investigators have begun work in Foshan, in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, where they think the outbreak started.
They hope to interview a man who is the first known person infected.
The unidentified man passed the disease to four other people. He survived and has since been released from hospital.
Written by CBC News Online staff更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net