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Susan Dentzer reports on how the U.S. health care system treated the first person in the country to become ill with SARS and how through a combination of luck and vigilance that person recovered and did not spread the disease…

China continues to grapple with SARS amid criticism they have not done enough to prevent the illness from spreading. After a report from ITN's Julian Manyon in Beijing, experts assess SARS' political, economic and medical fallout for China.