BEIJING: They call at all hours, one after the other, worried that they've fallen prey to the lethal new disease or bursting with questions about it, including how to avoid catching it.
Deprived until recently of information on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, anxious Chinese are inundating a 24-hour English hotline specially set up for foreigners in Beijing as the death toll in the country of 1.3 billion people edges upward and the number of cases mushrooms.
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