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Byline: Michael Dorgan
BEIJING _ Faced with mounting criticism of China's sluggish response to a deadly new respiratory virus, a government spokesman on Tuesday denied a cover-up and lashed out at critics.
"We have nothing to hide," Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jiancho said at a press conference where he was peppered with questions about the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which began in southern China in November and has spread to more than a dozen countries, including the United States.
"We have made tremendous efforts to control the disease," Liu said.
Liu's comments came a day after the Asian Wall Street Journal published an editorial calling for other countries to cut all travel ...
Source: HighBeam Research, China spokesman denies SARS cover-up.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)