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Will
SARS come back again?
Asia is taking steps to protect its people from a second outbreak of the deadly SARS virus after a Chinese man was found to have caught the infectious respiratory disease, the first case to emerge from the general population since July 2003.
Blamed for covering up the disease when it first emerged, China has been quick to respond this time, embarking on a massive slaughter of civets, weasel-like creatures widely suspected to be SARS carriers.
At the same time, laboratories across the globe are hunting for a cure and possible vaccine to fight SARS, which infected more than 8,000 people in close to 30 nations and killed more than 750.
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