As virus spreads, other countries can learn from China.
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Now that the virus has reached every continent except Antarctica, with South America's first confirmed case this week, the World Health Organization is proposing a challenge for others: Be more like China. In a democracy, a restriction of this magnitude"requires explaining a lot, why it is important,” said virologist Marion Koopmans of the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands. “But it is a common-sense thing that people can understand. Our grandparents taught us so. I remember being in human quarantine as a child, when I had mumps.”
“They took this old approach and then turbocharged it with modern science and modern technology in a way that was unimaginable even a few years ago,” said Bruce Aylward, a Canadian epidemiologist who headed a recent WHO mission in China.
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