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WHO team travels to Beijing to help investigate source of SARS

The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today is sending the first members of an international team to help investigate the source of cases of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) recently reported in Beijing and the eastern province of Anhui, which have now doubled to eight, following a request of China’s Health Ministry.

SARS vaccine trial could start in a few months – WHO

A vaccine for the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) will not be available if an epidemic should recur at the end of the year, but the first clinical trial of a vaccine could begin as early as January 2004, health experts convened by the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) have concluded.