Virus : China says 'most stringent' measures already adopted Chinese health officials, during a press conference, say China "has already adopted the most stringent prevention and control measures" to battle the ongoing SARS-like virus epidemic, an outbreak which the World Health Organization has declared an international emergency.\\n\\n"For severe cases, there may be some changes in the lungs’ ability to repair themselves for a certain period of time, such as pulmonary fibrosis," says Zhan Qingyuan, director of the Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine department at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital.\\n IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES