BEIJING: The number of SARS cases in China passed 5,000 yesterday as the disease spread in Taiwan with eight new fatalities and a record jump in infections.
As the grim statistics rolled in, the World Health Organisation visited a poor and medically backward Chinese province that could be fertile ground for a future, and potentially devastating, epidemic.
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