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Nature 439, 382-383 (26 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/439382a; Published online 25 January 2006

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China: Open season

Apoorva Mandavilli1

  1. Apoorva Mandavilli is senior news editor of Nature Medicine.

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SARS caught China unawares. But the ensuing struggle to characterize and contain the virus has put the country's work on infectious diseases back on target. Apoorva Mandavilli reports.

Like anyone who was in Beijing in the spring of 2003, Hongkui Deng remembers it vividly. The Chinese government could no longer deny that the country was in the grip of a new and potentially fatal disease: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

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