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  DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor892 Published 1 July 2003 Vicki BrowerFind this author on Google ScholarFind this author on PubMedSearch for this author on this site ArticleInfo & Metrics PDF Indeed, at the beginning of June, it looked like SARS would be limited to China and Toronto. Initial cases in France, Germany, the UK and the USA earlier this year were relatively few and were quickly contained. Rapid action by the Vietnamese government also quickly rooted out the disease there, and Singapore seems to have been lucky as well. The Chinese government also became increasingly clear about the extent of the disease, and removed the Chinese health minister and the Mayor of Beijing in April, largely because they and others had tried to sweep the epidemic under the carpet last winter.
  And SARS is just the tip of the iceberg. In the past few years, tuberculosis cases have quadrupled and AIDS has spread rapidly, not only in China but in many other countries, too. Be it SARS or something else, infectious diseases and the fear they trigger have caused a lot of political unrest and economic instability, which sends out ripples across the world. The solution is not money from WHO or elsewhere, but rather a long‐term plan to re‐involve nations in healthcare, Muldavin thinks. "The situation requires active state participation well beyond anything currently envisioned. […] By depending on the market to provide health care, the Chinese state may have made its most costly blunder yet, one for which we may all pay the price," Muldavin concluded.Copyright © 2003 European Molecular Biology OrganizationView Abstract Back to top Vol 35 Issue 20
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