我们为什么能战胜"非典"

当代社会的历史潜能，表明我们能够战胜非典是一种历史必然。对维护人类健康的理性认识和历史责任感，当代医学发展的水平，密切合作的国际关系，信息公开和全民共事的新思维，医务人员的高尚情操，决定了昔日传染病流行的灾难不可能在今天重演。而抗典所形成的共识及其经验，将成为今后战胜各种传染病乃至提高全民健康水平的宝贵财富。

Why We Can Defeat SARS

The current historical circumstances suggest that the defeat of SARS is inevitable. These include the rational knowledge currently available to defend human health, the historical responsibility we feel today, contemporary medical knowledge, close international cooperation, the new idea of opening information to the public, and the noble thoughts and feelings of medical workers for their patients. All of these things suggest that the catastrophe of such an infectious disease cannot be repeated today as has happened in the past. Also, the experience and insights we obtain from fighting SARS will become a valuable asset in the fight against other infectious diseases in the future, thus improving the health care of our nation.