Taipei subway forms new front against SARS

THE subway system in Taiwan’s capital became a new front in the war against SARS yesterday as a top Chinese Communist Party official called for “total victory” against the disease.

Elsewhere, an AIDS researcher said the SARS virus seems to attack human cells in a manner akin to HIV, which may offer clues for finding the best treatment against the recently discovered illness.

Meanwhile, the first case of the disease in Finland has been confirmed by a hospital in the town of Aabo, Finnish news agency FNB said.