JAKARTA: Just as Asean was picking up the pieces and putting in place major initiatives to integrate the region and make it globally competitive after the financial crisis of 1997, the economic slowdown of the new millennium and last year's Bali bombing, another challenge, this time from an unknown and mutant microbe, has reared its head.
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which has killed more than 300 people worldwide with more than 80% of the deaths attributed to China and Hong Kong, has infected close to 5,000 people globally.
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