HEALTH-CHINA: Virus Spreads, But So Does Ignorance

Beijing, a city in denial about the possibility of new global pandemic that may have originated in China, is coming to grips with a startling reality: Here one gets to learn more about the invasion of Iraq than about China's internal front of fighting to contain the killer virus that causes atypical pneumonia.

HEALTH-SINGAPORE: Closed Schools, Empty Cabs Spell Fear

Closed schools, empty taxicabs and people wearing face masks at the airport - these are just some of the signs that it is not business as usual in this South-east Asian city state known for its cleanliness, efficiency and discipline.

HEALTH: WHO Expresses Concern over New Form of Pneumonia

World Health Organisation (WHO) authorities expressed concern Tuesday over the continued spread of what has been dubbed ''Asian pneumonia'', an apparently new disease whose cause has not yet been determined, in Hong Kong and China.

HEALTH: Pneumonia the Latest Outbreak Believed to come from China

Just as China's Health Minister Zhang Wenkang was insisting that he had under ''effective control'' the mystery disease that has alarmed doctors around the world, fresh reports of deaths here heightened fears that China could be the hot zone for a new, international pandemic.

HEALTH: WHO Overreacting to Mystery Diseas – Indian Experts

Indian experts who have experience with the 1984 pneumonic plague scare in the western port city of Surat say the World Health Organisation (WHO) may be overreacting to the mysterious atypical pneumonia that has killed five people and affected hundreds in western China, where it is thought to have originated.