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Scientists warn of more serious disease threats than Sars
It s a decade to the day since the disease first hit...
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Hong Kong News ? Abney and Associates Blog
http://www.
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com/news/hong-kong/article/1154871/scientists-warn-more-seriousdisease-threats-sars
Scientists warn of more serious disease threats than Sars
It s a decade to the day since the disease first hit Hong Kong.
Scientists say
the city can cope if it returns but there are other, more serious threats.
A
decade on from the Sars outbreak, experts agree that the disease could return but its effects are unlikely to be as devastating as in 2003.
Hong Kong is now fully capable of battling an epidemic - such as severe acute
respiratory syndrome - thanks to much improved infrastructure and management
software, they say.
But that s no reason to be complacent in the battle against
contagious diseases.
While Sars remains on their watch list, microbiologists are
far more concerned about other biological threats - not least the H5N1 strain of
bird flu.
Their concern has been sparked by the growing realisation of the risk of viruses
crossing
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