BEIJING: An unidentified virus that causes pneumonia has killed five people and left some 300 hospitalised in southern China while rumours of a surging death toll have prompted frightened residents to stock up on antibiotics, officials said yesterday.
Health officials said the outbreak in a region of Guangdong province near Hong Kong had been brought under control. They said Health Ministry investigators sent from Beijing were trying to find the source of the disease.
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