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UN agency sending expert to China to investigate role of animals in SARS spread

10 July 2003
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is sending a leading viral disease expert on a three-week mission to China, to help coordinate an international investigation into the role animals might play in spreading the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
SARS coronavirus

SARS outbreaks contained worldwide but threat remains, UN health agency reports

5 July 2003
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that the transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) appears to have been stopped all across the globe, but cautioned that the threat of future outbreaks remains.
Dr. David Heymann

SARS: UN health agency clears Toronto after 20 days without transmission

2 July 2003
The United Nations health agency today removed Toronto, Canada, from its list of areas with recent local transmission of SARS, leaving Taiwan Province as the only region in the world still to have experienced recent local transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.