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TOPSHOT - Two Taiwan firefighers clad in full protective gear spray water to disinfect a building of the Taipei Municipal Hoping Hospital on 14 May, 2003. The hospital was closed on 24 April, 2003 and has been empty since Thursday last week when 900 medical staff and 200 patients were transferred to the other hospitals for treatment and quarantine. The Taipei city government has sait the hospital, after the disinfection throughout, would be designated as the special SARS treatment hospital. The virus of Severe Acute respiratory Syndrome has claimed 31 lives out of 238 cases here. AFP/Patrick Lin (Photo by PATRICK LIN / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK LIN/AFP via Getty Images)