WHO Scales Back SARS Travel Alert
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From Times Wire Reports
The World Health Organization lifted SARS warnings against travel to mainland China except Beijing, in a further sign the potentially fatal disease is being tamed.
But the WHO kept up its call to avoid unnecessary trips to the Chinese capital and to Taiwan because of lingering worries about severe acute respiratory syndrome. The U.N. agency also expressed concern about Toronto after a visitor from North Carolina became infected.
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