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Volume 349:711-712 August 14, 2003 Number 7
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SARS and the Internet

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To the Editor: Your editorial (May 15 issue)1 describes the speed and power of the Internet in communicating to the world knowledge about severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the progression of the epidemic. This access is indispensable to those of us in Taiwan, from government officials to basic researchers like me. Because of Taiwan's exclusion from the World Health Organization (WHO),2 we had to rely solely on the Internet to obtain information about SARS from the WHO's Web site and other Web sites like that of the Journal, until a team of epidemiologists from the WHO finally arrived in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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N Engl J Med 2003; 349:1875-1876, Nov 6, 2003. Correspondence

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