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The World Health Organization lifted the last remaining SARS-related travel warning this week, declaring the deadly respiratory virus under control in China. Neither Beijing nor Hong Kong has recorded a new case of infection in the past several weeks. “The whole world can now feel safer from the SARS threat,” said David Heymann of the WHO. The disease hasn’t been completely eradicated: Taiwan and Toronto are still grappling with new cases. But even those areas are no longer under travel warnings. SARS has killed more than 800 people and sickened more than 8,000 since it first appeared in southern China last November.
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