BEIJING: China is attempting to stamp out spitting with a campaign against the practice, which doctors say spreads diseases such as the flu-like SARS virus and highly contagious tuberculosis.
Beijing and Guangzhou, two cities battling SARS, had sent more than 1,000 sanitary workers onto the streets to police spitting, characterised by a hawking sound that now sends nervous passers-by scurrying for fear of catching the virus.
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