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SARS : reception and interpretations in three Chinese cities / Deborah Davis and Helen Siu -- Global connectivity and local politics : SARS, talk radio, and public opinion / Eric Kit-Wai Ma and Joseph Man Chan -- SARS, avian flu, and the urban double take / John Nguyet Erni -- Eulogy and practice : public professionals and private lives / Helen Siu and Jane Chan -- Artistic responses to SARS : footprints in the local and global realms of cyberspace / Abbey Newman -- SARS humor for the virtual community : between the Chinese emerging public sphere and the authoritarian state / Hong Zhang -- The weakness of a post-authoritarian democratic society : reflections upon Taiwan's societal crisis during the SARS outbreak / Yun Fan and Ming-chi Chen.

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SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high fatality rate and sheer speed at which this disease spread prompted the World Health Organization to initiate a medieval practice of quarantine in the absence of any scientific knowledge of the disease. Now three years on from the initital outbreak, SARS poses no major threat and has vanished from.

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