From WSJopinion: The Wuhan outbreak is a test for health officials everywhere to show how prepared they are to contain the all-too-real threat of an infectious disease panic
The Chinese government on Wednesday cut train and air travel out of the city of Wuhan in a race to contain the mysterious coronavirus that has sickened more than 500 on the mainland. Quarantining a city of 11 million is a radical step, the kind democracies are loath to take, but then maybe China is determined not to relive the deadly SARS outbreak of 2003 and be blamed for a global pandemic.
In late December China alerted the World Health Organization of a cluster of pneumonia-like illnesses in Wuhan. Officials suspected...
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