Global cooperation was essential in tackling SARS: WHO chief

GENEVA, Switzerland - World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Gro Harlem Brundtland speaks in an interview with Kyodo News at her office in Geneva on July 10. She said the SARS epidemic showed the importance of global cooperation in tackling such new diseases.

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