On the bleeding edge of a global outbreak would be travel-related companies such as hotels and airlines, restaurants, mass transportation and nonessential retail shopping.
Twenty years after the global outbreak of AIDS, no one has developed an effective vaccine against the HIV virus, a far more cunning foe than polio, smallpox or measles.
Consumer spending was hurt and millions of Chinese dawned facial masks in the spring of 2003 when the country was the epicenter of a global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, that killed several hundred people worldwide.
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Consumer spending was hurt and millions of Chinese dawned facial masks as a grim part of life in 2003 when the country was the epicenter of a global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, that killed several hundred people worldwide.
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Early Tuesday, the Mexican and Chinese government sent chartered flights to each other's countries to pick up their respective nationals stranded or quarantined because of the global swine flu outbreak.
But it all began to fall apart in 2008 with the outbreak of the global financial crisis.
Its economy was growing steadily until the outbreak of the global financial crisis.
Reform efforts have stalled in China since the outbreak of the global financial crisis in 2008, which to many Chinese severely discredited the Western free-market model.
"We understand there could be global risks associated with the current outbreak, " said study author Dr. Isaac Bogoch, a specialist in infectious diseases and tropical medicine at the University of Toronto.
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New uncertainties in the global outlook the SARS outbreak was singled out have combined with domestic concerns, such as the tightness in the natural-gas market, to have an adverse impact.
The SARS outbreak has highlighted the key role Internet can play in a global health emergency.
The bird flu outbreak is also on the front pages of many Hong Kong newspapers and it coincides with the 10th anniversary of the Sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak that killed at least 349 people on the mainland, triggering a global epidemic.
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