Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) — A suspected SARS case in southern
China has been confirmed, Agence France-Presse reported, citing a
provincial health official. It would be the first case involving
a person unrelated to SARS laboratory research.
“Our experts at the center for disease control have made
many tests, and they are all positive,” Feng Shaoming, a
spokesman for the Guangdong Center for Disease Control, was
quoted as saying.
An unidentified 32-year-old television producer was
hospitalized in Guangzhou on Dec. 20 because of fevers and
headache. X-rays showed signs of possible infection in his lower
right lung, the World Health Organization said yesterday.
The case would be the third in Asia since September, when
Singapore reported a 27-year-old man was diagnosed with severe
acute respiratory syndrome after being infected in a lab. Earlier
this month, a SARS researcher in Taiwan tested positive for the
virus after contracting the disease at work.
Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong province, the
suspected source of a global SARS outbreak that began in November
2002 and lasted through June. The province of 86 million people
is adjacent to Hong Kong and hundreds of thousands of people
cross the border daily for work and leisure.
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore had the highest
number of infections during the outbreak.

Same thing pretty much from news24.

One case and the SGX shits the bed. Ah, well it did. It’s recovered now. Good sense prevails hopefully.

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