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WHO experts arrive to deal with SARS

REASONABLE DOUBTS Senior officials expressed skepticism over Beijing's claim that it approved the international health organization's decision to come to Taiwan

By Monique Chu and Melody Chen  /  STAFF REPORTER

"China permitted WHO officials to visit Taiwan because it is under massive pressure from the international community," Wu said.

According to Wu, China has often claimed it takes care of Taiwanese people's health.

"However, the SARS outbreak in Taiwan has pulverized China's myth," he said.

Taiwan's first imported SARS case came from China, said the Center for Disease Control.

Taiwan and many other countries are suffering from China's cover-ups of its SARS outbreak. "I am really curious whether China still has the guts to proclaim to the member states in the WHA that it always takes care of the Taiwanese people's health," Wu said.

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