500 in Quarantine After Small SARS Outbreak
From Times Wire Reports
Nearly 500 people were in quarantine in Beijing and the eastern Chinese province of Anhui as authorities raced to contain a small eruption of SARS before May Day put millions of travelers on the road. Two confirmed cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome and six suspected ones have been announced in the last week, all linked to a SARS lab in Beijing.
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