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BEIJING, (AFP) - Asians are more likely to contract SARS than = others, a=20 leading Chinese expert on the deadly virus was quoted as saying by = local=20 media.
"Research shows that the main reason why more Asians get = SARS=20 is... a genetic defect," Professor Zhong Nanshan of the Guangzhou=20 Institute for Respiratory Diseases was quoted as saying by the = sina.com=20 website.
"This hereditary genetic flaw causes Asians to contract = SARS more=20 easily," he said, according to the report.
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) originally emerged = in=20 south China's Guangdong province at the end of last year, and = spread=20 rapidly to the rest of the country.
China was worse hit by SARS than any other country, = accounting for=20 349 fatalities and 5,327 infections.
But the disease also spread across China's borders and = eventually=20 struck 32 countries, infecting some 8,000 people and killing close = to 800=20 -- mostly in Asia -- before subsiding in the middle of this year.

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