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标 题: WHO cautions against visiting Beijing
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年04月24日20:51:57 星期四), 站内信件
WHO cautions against visiting Beijing, Toronto
The World Health Organization in its latest travel advisory warned travelers
to avoid visiting Beijing and Canada's Toronto, saying the drastic step is
needed to halt the spread of the dangerous new lung infection, SARS.
The warning, the latest indication of rising alarm about the disease, signif
icantly expanded the UN agency's SARS travel alert and marked the first time
in its 55-year history WHO has told the public to avoid Beijing or any plac
e in North America. WHO also added the Chinese province of Shanxi to its lis
t of places to avoid.
"We're doing this to try to stop this disease from becoming endemic," said D
avid L. Heymann, executive director of WHO's communicable diseases program.
"We want to stop cases from spreading around the world."
The decision was denounced by officials in Toronto, which has suffered a sha
rp drop in tourism because of a large SARS outbreak, and was received as ano
ther blow to Beijing, which is still seeing an growing cases of SARS.
WHO previously warned travelers to avoid unnecessary visits to Hong Kong and
the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, marking the first time the agen
cy had advised people to stay away from any places because of a disease.
WHO officials said the expanded advisory was necessary because the SARS viru
s was continuing to spread -- and was spreading more widely than had been th
ought -- in those areas. WHO will review the advisory in three weeks.
"There's evidence of transmission outside the very close community -- for ex
ample, outside the hospital workers and their family -- and there's evidence
of exportation outside the area," said Denis Aitken, a top WHO official.
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