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WHO says global collaboration, vigilance needed to beat SARS.
(From Agence France Presse)
World Health Organization officials here said global collaboration and vigilance is what will help crack Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which has killed more than 390 people worldwide.
More than 100 health officials, clinicians, epidemiologists and representatives from Britain, Canada, China, Hong Kong and the United States met here for two days to exchange ideas about how to fight SARS.
Toronto is the area hardest hit by SARS outside of Asia.
At the close of the conference, David Heymann, WHO's executive director for communicable disease clusters, praised world efforts to contain the disease that has now infected nearly 6,000 people.
He said "detect and protect" measures are the key to SARS containment, since there is yet no cure for the disease, which emerged in China in November.
"Detect this disease by having health workers understand that this disease is present and protect by using the proper protective equipment for health systems also with public health doing surveillance and screening in patients," he said.
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