SARS Headlines:
Tourist arrivals to Singapore plunge 56% in early April
Channel News Asia, Singapore - 53 minutes ago
By Farah Abdul Rahim. Tourist arrivals to Singapore dropped by about
78000, or a staggering 56 percent, in early April from a year ...
SARS victims tied to religious group
Canada.com, Canada - 54 minutes ago
Biologist Sybille Resemann presents a detection test for the highly contagious pneumonia
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ( SARS) at the biotechnology company ...
Markets in Asia hit by SARS
San Francisco Chronicle, CA - 1 hour ago
Will the SARS virus spread through Asia like the 1997-98 financial crisis, ravaging
the region's economies and financial markets and threatening the United ...
Masks Can't Stop This Virus
Fortune - 2 hours ago
By Clay Chandler. As a deadly virus spawned in China rages from Toronto
to Thailand, readers in Beijing are snapping up copies of ...
Secrecy, new fears surround Sars
News24, South Africa - 3 hours ago
Hong Kong - Stubborn secrecy surrounded the Sars outbreak in Asia on Tuesday as
China denied international experts access to military hospitals and the virus ...
Lessons from Sars
News24, South Africa - 3 hours ago
Beijing - China, strongly criticised for its handling of the Sars outbreak, stands
to learn valuable lessons from the crisis, international health experts said ...
Big names won't attend trade fair in China
San Jose Mercury News, CA - 3 hours ago
By Alison Leung. HONG KONG - Apparel executive Chow Chun Yu will
skip China's biggest trade fair this week for the first time in ...
Concern grows among Chinese
Edmonton Sun, Canada - 4 hours ago
By AP. BEIJING -- Chinese leaders expressed grave concerns over the
deadly SARS outbreak for the first time yesterday, following ...
Utah Boy Abroad Has SARS
Salt Lake Tribune, UT - 5 hours ago
By Linda Fantin. A 6-year-old Orem boy has been diagnosed with a
mild form of the mysterious respiratory disease that killed his ...
Hong Kong preparing rescue package to tackle SARS
Forbes - 5 hours ago
By Tan Ee Lyn. HONG KONG, April 15 (Reuters) - Hong Kong leader Tung
Chee-hwa huddled with top cabinet members on Tuesday to hammer ...
Travel restrictions on SARS-hit nations remain, says Malaysian ...
Channel News Asia, Singapore - 5 hours ago
Malaysia's travel restrictions on residents of Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Vietnam
and Canada will stay, so as to keep the SARS virus from spreading, says Health ...
SARS clouds China travel hopes
CNN International - 5 hours ago
An internal memo from Cathay Pacific of Hong Kong shows its passenger
load is about one-third normal. (April 14). The outbreak of ...
Trying to fly through the fog around the spread of Sars
Financial Times (subscription), UK - 6 hours ago
By Mure Dickie. With a headquarters located near the epicentre of the
international outbreak of a deadly new form of pneumonia, China ...
VIRUS SPREADS TO EUROPE
Sky News, UK - 6 hours ago
Doctors in Italy are investigating what could be Europe's first death
from the flu-like virus Sars. Health officials are looking ...
SARS seems to be spreading in China
Baltimore Sun, MD - 6 hours ago
By Michael A. Lev. BEIJING - Among the 74 new cases of SARS reported
yesterday in China are 47 in the interior province of Shanxi ...
Walt Disney joins list of companies hurt by epidemic
Independent Online, South Africa - 7 hours ago
By The Independent. London - Walt Disney, the international theme
park company, and several airlines are being hurt by the impact ...
Matsushita, Sharp boost air cleaner output on SARS demand
Channel News Asia, Singapore - 9 hours ago
Japan's Matsushita and Sharp have said they will boost their output of air cleaners
in China due to surging demand triggered by the outbreak of the deadly ...
Indonesia's growth may be slowing
Taipei Times, Taiwan - 10 hours ago
Indonesia's economic growth this year may fall short of the IMF's 3.5 percent forecast
because of the spread of a deadly virus and weakening consumer confidence ...
Airlines want airport fees cut further
Taipei Times, Taiwan - 10 hours ago
By Joyce Huang. An aircrew for Germany's Lufthansa walk through Hong
Kong's Chek Lap Kok yesterday wearing masks to protect against ...
SARS Seen Slowing Asia Economic Growth
Reuters, UK - 10 hours ago
By Tan Ee Lyn. HONG KONG (Reuters) - The impact from the deadly SARS
virus will slow economic growth in most parts of Asia, as the ...
Virus worries China's leaders
Atlanta Journal Constitution, GA - 11 hours ago
In a striking change of tone Monday, Chinese leaders expressed "grave" concerns as
substantial new cases of unexplained pneumonia were found in widely distant ...
Cases of Lethal New Illness Rise Sharply in Interior China
New York Times - 12 hours ago
BEIJING, April 14 Reported cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome rose sharply
today in an interior province of north-central China, heralding the possible ...
SARS shows PRC's political sickness
eTaiwan News, Taiwan - 12 hours ago
The SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) contagion has now spread
to 23 countries. The toll in physical suffering and death ...
Government provides relief to local airlines
eTaiwan News, Taiwan - 12 hours ago
The government yesterday agreed to provide some relief to struggling local airlines
that have seen their load factors plummet because of the war in Iraq and ...
Cathay battling SARS for survival
Star, Malaysia - 13 hours ago
HONG KONG: Leading Asian airline Cathay Pacific has been dealt a devastating blow
by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) crisis, but analysts believe ...
Seven more die of SARS in Hong Kong
The Scotsman, UK - 14 hours ago
HONG KONG yesterday announced seven more people had died from severe acute respiratory
syndrome (SARS), the highest death toll in a single day from the virus ...
Quick Work Could Help Contain SARS, Experts Say
Reuters, UK - 16 hours ago
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent. WASHINGTON (Reuters)
- Quick work in mapping the genes of a new virus that is sweeping ...
WORLDNEWSSTORY
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 16 hours ago
HONG KONG: Hong Kong has reported seven more deaths from a flu-like respiratory
virus, the highest daily toll in the territory since the start of the outbreak ...
SARS may ground airline
News Interactive, Australia - 16 hours ago
By Tan Ee Lyn. HONG Kong's leader said yesterday the deadly SARS flu
virus has not yet been brought under effective control in the ...
Chinese Leaders Express SARS Concerns
ABC News - 16 hours ago
China's leaders expressed grave concerns over the deadly SARS outbreak for the first
time Monday, following weeks of assurances that the flu-like disease was ... |
