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WHO experts visit Sars-hit Guangdong province
Beijing, Jan 09: Concerned by the second suspected case of Sars, experts from the World Health Organisation are in Guangdong province to help local authorities in their probe for the origin of the virus.
Five of the 10-member joint team arrived in Guangzhou,
capital of Guangdong yesterday, including two WHO
epidemiologists and some officials of the Chinese Health
Ministry (MoH).
Robert Breiman, who is heading the who team, said the
joint mission will look into the recent occurrence of the
diagnosed Sars case in Guangdong, and their major concerns
will center on the potential human, animal and environmental
sources of the infection.
Sources at the Guangdong provincial health bureau said
three Chinese experts and one WHO expert of the joint team
were already in Guangdong, and another world agency's
environmental expert from Canada will join the team today. The
team is scheduled to stay in Guangdong for a week.
The WHO and the health ministry dispatched a joint
team of experts to Guangdong on December 29, 2003, two days
after the province reported a suspected Sars case.
Bureau Report