SARS

UPDATE: China says bird flu death toll rises to 13
Chinese people wear face masks near a specialized fever clinic inside the Ditan Hospital, where a Chinese girl is being treated for the H7N9 strain of bird flu, in Beijing on April 14. (AP Photo)
April 14, 2013
BEIJING--Two people in the central Chinese province of Henan have been infected by a new strain of avian influenza, the first cases found in the region, while the death toll...
China culls birds as flu deaths mount; airline...
A meat shop that employed the 27-year-old man who died from H7N9 bird flu in Shanghai remains closed on April 3, while other stores are open. (Kim Soon-hi)
April 05, 2013
SHANGHAI/HONG KONG--Chinese authorities slaughtered over 20,000 birds at a poultry market in Shanghai on April 5 as the death toll from a new strain of bird flu mounted to six, ...
China mobilizes to fight new bird flu; Japan, HK on ...
Customers pick up meat at a store beside the one that employed the 27-year-old man who died from H7N9 in Shanghai on April 3. (Kim Soon-hi)
April 04, 2013
BEIJING--China said it was mobilizing resources nationwide to combat a new strain of deadly bird flu that has killed three people, as Japan and Hong Kong stepped up vigilance...
Flood of dead pigs, trickle of answers in China
Sanitation workers retrieve dead pigs along the Huangpu River in Songjiang District in Shanghai, China, on March 10. (AP Photo)
March 20, 2013
BEIJING--The pig carcasses--now nearly 14,000 of them--have been floating down rivers that feed into Shanghai for nearly two weeks. The city's residents have been told not to...
China sends man to labor camp for SARS rumor
February 27, 2012
BEIJING -- Police in a north China city said on Feb. 27 that they have sentenced a man to two years of "labor re-education" for spreading rumors of an outbreak of the SARS...
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