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REUTERS/Simon Kwong  The Taiwan Post Office released a series of anti-SARS stamps. Funds collected were designated to fight the disease, which was declared under control in Taiwan on July 5. November 2002: Initial cases of a severe, new pneumonia appear in Guangdong Province, South China. The World Health Organization (WHO) is not warned. Feb. 28, 2003: Hanoi, Vietnam, asks WHO representative Carlo Urbani for assistance with a similar disease. Urbani warns WHO of probable existence of

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