China yesterday quarantined 10,000 more citizens in its desperate efforts to contain severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) as panic riots hit rural areas despite global successes in halting the spread of the virus.
…On the scientific front, new research has emerged which shows that the SARS virus is more resilient than first thought and can survive for weeks outside the human body.
Meanwhile:
The University of California at Berkeley will turn away new students from Taiwan this summer in what is believed to be the first such move by a major US university to prevent the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
