SARS Causes 16,000 No-Shows in Toronto

The devastation the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak is wreaking on convention and tradeshow business in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, and other Asian nations is, like the disease itself, starting to spread to North America. Even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had not yet issued a specific travel advisory for Canada as it has for mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Hanoi, Vietnam, the American Association for Cancer Research on April 2 made the hard