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Published online 12 September 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060911-1

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No proof that SARS therapies worked

Trials carried out during epidemic give inconclusive results

Four years after the SARS virus prompted international panic, researchers are realizing that very little useful information was collected during the epidemic on how to treat the disease. The finding holds lessons for the treatment of bird flu.

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