Japan to issue travel warning over SARS

Japan to issue travel warning over SARS

NARITA, Japan - A woman already wearing a mask examines new masks at a drug store at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on April 3. The government issued a travel warning urging Japanese to postpone travels to Hong Kong and China's Guangdong Province, where a new type of deadly pneumonia virus is rapidly spreading.

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