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Asia readies for swine flu threat using lessons learned from SARS, bird flu (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
HONG KONG - Before swine flu emptied restaurants and cinemas and made surgical masks a common sight in Mexico, similar scenes unfolded in Asia earlier this decade as it dealt with the back-to-back health emergencies of SARS and bird flu.