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To: RealMuLan who wrote (32919)5/2/2003 1:22:01 PM
From: RealMuLan  Respond to of 74559
 
FEATURE-SARS brings string of problems for pearl trade
Reuters, 05.01.03, 1:20 PM ET
By Wei Gu

NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) - It may take an oyster years to form a lustrous pearl, but just a few weeks for SARS to disrupt the global pearl supply.

The outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome has frightened away foreign buyers from Hong Kong and China's Guangdong province, which supply about 38 percent of the world's pearls.
forbes.com