1956: China opens a microbiology laboratory in Wuhan. It becomes the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 1978.

2003: Beijing doctor Jiang Yanyong speaks to Western reporters about China’s cover-up of the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) epidemic.

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