BEIJING (Reuters) - China, where deadly SARS first emerged in 2002, is on the alert for fever among groups of flu sufferers in its freezing capital, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, the symptoms of which are similar to those of flu, spread as far afield as Canada before it was brought under control in 2003. It killed close to 800 people out of the 8,000 known to have been infected.
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