The New Coronavirus: in Search of the Culprit

• Main Authors: Loh, Kung Wai Christine, Chan-Yeung, Moira N.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Hong Kong University Press, HKU 2004
• Subjects: Klaus; Avian flu
• Online Access: http://repository.ust.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-91890; http://lbdiscover.ust.hk/uresolver?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rfr_id=info:sid/HKUST:SPI&rft.genre=article&rft.issn=&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.date=2004&rft.spage=43&rft.aulast=&rft.aufirst=&rft.atitle=The%20new%20coronavirus%3A%20In%20search%20of%20the%20culprit&rft.title=At%20the%20Epicentre%3A%20Hong%20Kong%20and%20the%20SARS%20outbreak; http://www.scopus.com/record/display.url?eid=2-s2.0-39449111133&origin=inward

Virologist Klaus Stohr first had an inkling that trouble was brewing in November 2002. On a business trip to Beijing, the influenza programme manager for the World Health Organisation (WHO) was attending a routine meeting on China's flu vaccination policy. Stohr heard a report from a Guangdong...