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Hong Kong - March 28: SARS is the name used to describe a serious disease with pneumonia-like symptoms that first emerged in southern China last year, but has since gone on to cause several deaths, mostly in Asia. Hong Kong closed schools in an effort to stem the spread the ailment.

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