A massive quarantine effort covering 13 cities was in effect in
China on Saturday aimed at containing a deadly virus, as the death toll climbed to 26 and the first cases of the disease were reported in Europe and South Asia.
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China on Friday imposed transport bans in an area covering a staggering 41 million people, as the
United States confirmed its second case of the SARS-like virus that has reached almost a dozen countries.
The virus has also spread to densely populated South Asia, where Nepal confirmed one case, and Europe, where two cases were reported in France.