A Chinese hospital worker wearing a mask washes the sidewalk outside the No. 8 People's Hospital, where a SARS patient has been treated in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province, Jan 6, 2004. The first confirmed SARS patient in the Chinese mainland since last July has 'fully recovered' and will be discharged from the hospital on Thursday. [AP]

A health worker drops a dead civet cat into a metal container for incineration in Guangzhou, January 5, 2004. Health workers began drowning and incinerating thousands of civet cats in southern China on Tuesday over fears they carry a new strain of SARS, but international experts worried the cull may only add to the danger.

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