BEIJING’s Forbidden City is no longer off-limits. Tourists have been spotted at Hong Kong’s bustling Stanley market. Life in the cities worst hit by SARS is quickly returning to normal.
But behind laboratory doors it is a different story. “No one thinks we’ve eradicated the virus off the face of the Earth,” says Daniel Chin of the World Health Organization in Beijing. “There’s no guarantee against re-emergence, least of all in China.”
Doctors like Chin are still jittery because so many fundamental questions have yet to be answered. Where did the virus came from in the first place – and…
