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Believe It or Not

Pandemic Flu - To Prepare or Not Prepare?

By Jon Gorman

For a period of 232 days in 2002 and 2003, the world would experience the birth of a symbol. A surgical white mask became the most recognizable image of a global pandemic. Exposed to images on TV, in newspapers, in magazines, or on the Internet, the world saw citizens of Toronto and Taiwan - and places in between - donning white masks in their everyday lives to protect themselves from severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.

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