WHO takes Canada off SARS list: PM

The World Health Organization has taken Canada off its list of countries where the risk is high of contracting Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Prime Minister Jean Chretien says.

The World Health Organization has taken Canada off its list of countries where the risk is high of contracting Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Prime Minister Jean Chretien says.”I want to inform the house that the WHO advisory on Canada on SARS has been lifted at 2:30 this afternoon,” Chretien told the House of Commons. The disease known as SARS has killed 24 people in Canada, the hardest-hit country outside of Asia.(Source: ABC: Thursday, May 15, 2003. 5:02am (AEST))