Last two SARS patients released from hospital.
[And so quietly passes the first post-modern world wide epidemic (AIDS is in a different class). Have we learned anything from it? Will we be better prepared to react to the next one? Don’t think so. -Thomas]
SARS Patients’ Release Marks End of Outbreak in China
Kurt Achin
Hong Kong
16 Aug 2003, 10:42 UTC
China’s last two SARS patients have been released from the hospital in Beijing, bringing to an end an outbreak of disease that killed 349 people in the country. But officials are warning that the disease could reappear.