Virus stretches limits of strained public health systems
The virus outbreak that began in China and has spread to more than 20 countries is stretching already-strained public health systems in Asia and beyond, raising questions over whether everyone can get equal access to treatment.
Authorities in Wuhan, the city at the center of the outbreak, have been ordered to confine people suspected of having the illness in "quarantine camps" reminiscent of makeshift hospitals seen a century ago during the outbreak of Spanish flu.
