Travellers urged to avoid Hong Kong
The World Health Organisation said that travellers should stay away from Hong Kong and China’s Guangdong province, the two areas hardest hit by the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which has infected more than 2,200 people worldwide and killed upwards of 78.
The WHO said it was taking the action because at least nine foreign businessmen who contracted SARS in Hong Kong brought it back to their home countries.
