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	Fears Spread Over Deadly Virus URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2858439.stm ODP description: Health officials struggle to contain the spread of a "mystery illness" reported across continents. [BBC News] Page title: BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Fears spread over deadly virus Page description: Health officials struggle to contain the spread of a "mystery illness" reported across continents.
	Sydney Morning Herald: SARS URL: http://www.smh.com.au/specials/sars/ ODP description: Special coverage of the outbreak, with emphasis on Australian cases and Asian travel issues. Page title: smh.com.au - The Sydney Morning Herald
	SARS Reference URL: http://www.sarsreference.com/ ODP description: Online textbook reviewing available medical information. Page title: SARS Reference \| Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) \| Medical Textbook Page description: SARS Reference is a medical textbook that provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Free access.
	Yahoo! News Full Coverage: SARS URL: http://news.yahoo.com/fc/Health/Severe_Acute_Respiratory_Syndrome ODP description: Hub for hundreds of news articles and stories. Page title: SARS Full Coverage on Yahoo! News
	Status of the SARS outbreak URL: http://www.who.int/csr/sarsarchive/2003_04_11/en/print.html ODP description: Overview of events since recognition of this outbreak as major global concern. Explains why this is more serious than outbreaks of other new infectious diseases in the last years. [WHO] Page title: WHO \| Update 27 - One month into the global SARS outbreak: Status of the outbreak and lessons for the immediate future
	New germ may be cause of killer 'flumonia' URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=117&art_id=vn20030319052850628C796631&set_id=1 ODP description: Overview of what is known so far. [Independent Online] Page title: IOL: New germ may be cause of killer 'flumonia'
	New York Times: Science Special - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome URL: http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2003/04/02/science/sciencespecial/index.html ODP description: Archived news coverage. (Free registration required.) Page title: The New York Times: Science Special
	New suspect in super-pneumonia outbreak URL: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993542 ODP description: Several labs have found a coronavirus in SARS patients. One possibility is that the disease might be caused by both that and the previously isolated paramyxovirus acting in tandem. [New Scientist] Page title: New suspect in super-pneumonia outbreak - 25 March 2003 - New Scientist Page description: Microbiologists identify a second virus linked to the deadly global outbreak - it may take both viruses to trigger the disease
	New England Journal of Medicine: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) URL: http://nejm.org/earlyrelease/sars.asp ODP description: Early release of several articles dealing with the outbreak in Hong Kong and Canada. Page title: NEJM: Articles on severe acute respiratory syndrome Page description: The SARS collection covers topics such as the epidemiology and clinical manifestations of the severe acute respiratory syndrome, the radiological manifestations, identification of the coronavirus, and includes research articles, case reports, letters, and editorial commentary.
	Killer Bug Looks Like a Virus URL: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2003/03/58083 ODP description: Overview of the severe acute respiratory syndrome. [Wired News] Page description: Health experts believe a deadly flu-like illness that has killed nine people is likely a virus. They're also encouraged that some victims seem to be recovering.
	Health - canada.com network URL: http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=%7B7A851514-4B76-4E39-9BA7-D99869C0730C%7D Page title: canada.com \| Article Page description: The most news and entertainment portal from a Canadian perspective. Television, major newspapers across Canada, health, sport, entertainment, lifestyle, free email and more.
	Researchers May Have Pinpointed Virus Behind Mystery Ailment URL: http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=B0B6FDDB-959B-472B-A8F0-51285FCD47FC ODP description: Update on the viral research into the etiology of SARS. [Canadian Press] Page title: canada.com \| Article Page description: The most news and entertainment portal from a Canadian perspective. Television, major newspapers across Canada, health, sport, entertainment, lifestyle, free email and more.
	The SARS Farce URL: http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DD25.htm ODP description: Opinion that the small number of cases in Hong Kong's massive population does not justify the widespread panic and disruption that fear of the virus is causing. [spiked] Page title: spiked-health \| Article \| The SARS farce
	The Deadly Effects of Suppressed Info URL: http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2003/nf20030321_3515_db065.htm ODP description: The new, sometimes fatal, pneumonia-like disease got a head start in China because the country lacks a free press to dig out the truth. [BusinessWeek Online] Page title: BW Online \| March 21, 2003 \| The Deadly Effects of Suppressed Info Page description: The new, sometimes fatal, pneumonia-like disease got a head start in China because the country lacks a free press to dig out the truth
	SARS News - Topix URL: http://www.topix.com/health/sars ODP description: News on SARS collected from diverse sources on the web. Page title: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome News - Topix
	Washingtonpost.com: SARS URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/health/conditioncenter/sars/ ODP description: News coverage from the Associated Press and staff reporters, including local stories from the Washington, DC, US metropolitan area. Page title: washingtonpost.com: SARS
	Executive Order on Quarantinable Diseases URL: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2003pres/20030404a.html ODP description: Statement from US HHS director that the Public Health Service has added SARS to the list of quarantinable communicable diseases, in order to keep all options open. Page title: 2003.04.4: STATEMENT BY TOMMY G. THOMPSON Secretary of Health and Human Services Regarding Executive Order on Quarantinable Diseases
	Officials Say Fatal Asia Malady Could be a Flu or a New Virus URL: http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1047885174259500.xml ODP description: "A deadly, mysterious respiratory illness spread largely among health care workers in Asia could be a new strain of flu or even an exotic virus passed from animals to people, a health official said yesterday." [The Star-Ledger]
	TIME Asia: Living in a Hot Zone URL: http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501030407/ ODP description: Jim Erickson looks at the outbreak's medical and economic repercussions. Page description: Asia's killer virus has the region on edge. Jim Erickson looks at the outbreak'Â¹s medical and economic repercussions
	Virus Causing Deadly Pneumonia Revealed URL: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993517 ODP description: Indications that Acute Respiratory Syndrome is a member of the paramyxovirus family. [New Scientist] Page title: Virus causing deadly pneumonia revealed - 19 March 2003 - New Scientist Page description: The bug, which has killed 16 people around the world, usually infects animals such as birds and horses - existing drugs are ineffective