IPS Inter Press Service - SARS
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- HEALTH: Bird Flu Unpredictability Worries Doctors
BANGKOK, Apr 11 (IPS) - When a 12-year-old boy became Cambodia's latest victim of bird flu, at the beginning of this month, it only added to the uncertainties surrounding this lethal virus that worry scientists and doctors struggling to head off a possible pandemic. - HEALTH-BURMA: Bird Flu Breaks Junta's Insularity
BANGKOK, Mar 18 (IPS) - After years of oppression and secretive rule, Burma's generals appear to have come up against resistance from an unlikely opponent--avian flu virus. - HEALTH: Ongoing Threat of Animal-Borne Disease Looms Over Humans
GENEVA, May 5 (IPS) - Diseases that are associated with animals but which can be transmitted to humans -- a process known as zoonosis -- pose an unpredictable and growing threat that has international experts in animal and public health worried. - HEALTH: SARS Vigilance Grows as Flu Season Starts
NEW YORK, Nov 25 (IPS) - Public health officials worldwide say they are better prepared for a re-emergence of the SARS virus, but concerns persist that developing countries might lack the resources to quickly respond to an outbreak. - HEALTH: Responses to SARS Caught between Commerce, Community
SINGAPORE, Jun 26 (IPS) - For South-east Asians who have had to live uneasily from one mask to the next, the waning of the SARS outbreak is a relief. Piles of used masks no longer clog public rubbish bins, and health workers are breathing easier. - HEALTH-CANADA: SARS Exposes Cracks in Hospitals System
BROOKLIN, Canada, Jun 25 (IPS) - While the World Health Organization recently declared an end to the SARS crisis for now, Canada's health system is still reeling over its failure to initially control the disease in Toronto. - HEALTH: Three Months Later, More Questions than Answers on SARS
KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 19 (IPS) - After all the speeches at this week's first global conference on SARS, the diagnosis has to be that although three months of unprecedented international cooperation has stemmed its spread this time around, much more remains unknown about the deadly virus. - HEALTH-CHINA: SARS Becoming a Part of Life
BEIJING, Jun 9 (IPS) - For Chinese journalist Bai Weitao, the last few months have been nothing less than a nightmare that changed the life he knew, and made him value all the little things he took for granted. - HEALTH-MALAWI: SARS Causing Panic
BLANTYRE, May 26 (IPS) - The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which has been reported in Southeast Asia and Canada, is causing panic in Southern Africa. - HEALTH-CHINA: SARS May Yet Lead to Review of Public Health System
BEIJING, May 26 (IPS) - As the SARS outbreak here appears to ease a bit, hopes are growing that China's tardy tackling of the epidemic might have a positive side effect -- and force its leaders to confront the country's lopsided reforms in public health. - HEALTH: Unlike Taiwan, Chinese Doctors Can't Leave SARS Battle
BEIJING, May 23 (IPS) - The mass resignation of nurses and doctors fighting the SARS outbreak in Taiwan presents a striking contrast to the united front of medical workers that mainland Chinese propaganda is portraying in Beijing's own battle to contain the epidemic. - ASIA: An Old Foe, Malaria, Could Hold the Key to SARS - Experts
SINGAPORE, May 20 (IPS) - South-east Asian countries like Singapore have begun to cautiously hope that they have weathered the worst of the SARS outbreak, although it still looms large as a new and deadly health threat. - HEALTH: Breath of Tobacco-Free Air as World Assembly Begins
GENEVA, May 19 (IPS) - The World Health Assembly got underway in an unexpectedly optimistic climate due to the decision of the United States to withdraw its objections to the first global treaty on tobacco control, paving the way for its approval Wednesday. - TOURISM-CARIBBEAN: Marketing a Zone Free of SARS, Terrorism
HAVANA, May 19 (IPS) - In today's hard-hit global tourism industry, it is becoming more important to be able to advertise a destination as an area free of problems like the SARS epidemic or terrorism threats than to promote natural and architectural attractions. - LABOUR-PHILIPPINES: Nurses' Exodus Making Health System Ill
MANILA, May 15 (IPS) - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo brimmed with pride when the leaders of Singapore and China said at the recent SARS summit that Filipino nurses were performing admirably during the health crisis, but that praise also draws attention to one of the country's biggest illnesses - the exodus of its best nurses.
