…Writing in the Lancet medical journal, Detels and colleagues singled out the government of President Hu Jintao for unusual praise. Hu, for example, publicly shook hands with AIDS patients, helping to battle the stigma, they pointed out…
China initially tried to cover up the SARS outbreak and the virus, new to science, escaped to infect 8,000 people around the world and kill nearly 800 before it was contained.
Detels and colleagues said China also mistakenly tried to keep the AIDS virus out in the 1980s. [Full Text]