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Nature 405, 721 (15 June 2000) | doi:10.1038/35015747

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China warned of AIDS 'disaster'

One of China's leading AIDS researchers warned last week that, if the country does not move to combat the disease, it could soon face a "national disaster", with the largest number of AIDS cases in the world.According to the China News Agency, Zeng Yi, the director of the Institute of Demographical Research at the University of Beijing, told a meeting of the Chinese Academy of Sciences that AIDS threatened all the gains made since the country's economic reforms and opening up to the West.