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MEDIA ADVISORY: Book Launch/Press Conference

May 15, 2006

SARS: The Inside Story From WHO and the Lessons Learned for the Battle Against Avian Influenza

    What single event in southern China was the likely
start of the SARS epidemic?  What was the strange
combination of events on the ninth floor of a Hong Kong
hotel that sent the virus on its deadly journey around the
world?  And why is one ill-fated flight from Hong Kong to
Beijing still remembered with fear? 

    For the first time, these and other questions are
answered in a book that delivers the full inside story of
those dramatic days in 2003 when it seemed severe acute
respiratory system would bring Hong Kong and the world to
their knees. 

    "SARS: How a global epidemic was stopped"
contains information never before brought together in one
publication.  Published by the Western Pacific Regional
Office of the World Health Organization and written mainly
by the experts and scientists who were in the thick of the
battle, the 300-page book contains exclusive details of
what happened in the incidents in Hong Kong and elsewhere
that made SARS such a frightening phenomenon.

    The global launch of "SARS: How a global epidemic
was stopped" will take place at a news conference at
the Foreign Correspondents' Club on May 18, 2006.  The
press conference will be attended by the WHO official who
directed the battle against SARS in the region, Dr Shigeru
Omi, Regional Director for the Western Pacific. 

    Dr Omi will examine the lessons learned from SARS and
ask if Hong Kong and the world are now better prepared to
face the threat from avian influenza or the next emerging
disease.

    Complimentary copies of the book will be available at
the venue while stocks last.

    Place: The Verandah, FCC, 2 Lower Albert Rd, Central

    Date: 18 May 2006

    Time 10am.
 
    More information can be found at
http://www.wpro.who.int/publications/PUB_9290612134.htm .

    Downloadable illustrations from the book are at
http://www.wpro.who.int/media_centre/sars_book .

    For further information, please contact:

     Peter Cordingley
     Spokesman for the Western Pacific Region, 
     World Health Organization
     Tel:   +63-917-844-3688
     Email: cordingleyp@wpro.who.int. 

SOURCE  World Health Organization