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The SARS outbreak last winter not only terrified millions of people and ground trade in Asia to a halt, it also served as a deadly harbinger of epidemics to come.

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FANG LIN, TWENTY-FOUR, TOLD ME HE HAD AWAKENED TO THE USUAL cacophony: the bleat of a truck reversing; the steady, metallic thump of a jackhammer; the whining buzz of a steel saw; the driving in of nails; the slapping down of bricks; the irregular thumping-like sneakers in a dryer-of a cement mixer.
 

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