China has beaten Sars. reuters.co.uk They got control of sars faster than the sole remaining superpower got control of Iraq. Maybe China could take over Iraq and do the same.
<BEIJING (Reuters) - China has won the battle against SARS, says Premier Wen Jiabao.
"Wen delivered a speech to the meeting, saying that the Chinese people won the severe fight against the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)," Xinhua news agency said.
China has confirmed three SARS cases in the southern province of Guangdong in recent weeks. Two have since recovered and one is in stable condition in hospital.
SARS first emerged in Guangdong late in 2002 before being spread by travellers to more than 30 countries, infecting about 8,000 people and killing nearly 800.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said it could not comment on the assertion that the battle against SARS had been won, but that it was too early to say that there would not be any further cases.
"What we will say, as we have said all along this month, is that the systems in place, certainly in Guangdong, are much, much stronger than they were a year ago," WHO spokesman Roy Wadia told Reuters, referring to SARS detection, prevention, training and basic care in China.
"We feel SARS is a containable and controllable disease."
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Premier Wen Bia is also the guy who says Taiwan is going to get it if they don't do what China says. He seems like some kind of whacked out nut case. To assert that sars is defeated is premature, considering we haven't yet got to the time when sars got underway last year and it's obviously still out there, lurking.
His words might be entered into the annals of "Famous Last Words". With his and GeorgeW's hubris, there could be quite a tussle. Or, maybe they'll get on like a house on fire.
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