Mystery Pneumonia Kills Elderly Man in Hong Kong
Hong Kong: An elderly man has died in a Hong Kong hospital from Sars, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. The death of the man in his 70s brings the global death toll to 11. He had also been suffering from a blood disease. As he died, the number of patients in Hong Kong diagnosed with Sars rose by 19 to 222. A Hong Kong university team has isolated the virus from the lung tissue of a patient who developed Sars after contact with a doctor from southern China�s Guangdong Province. The World Health Organisation, which has issued a rare global warning about the disease, says the laboratory has succeeded in culturing an infectious agent that might be the cause of SARS.It describes the culture as: �The first important step towards the development of a diagnostic test.� A team of WHO infectious disease experts is travelling to China to investigate whether an outbreak of atypical pneumonia in China�s Guangdong Province last month was linked to Sars.In Singapore, a hospital has been closed to all but Sars patients and the US State Department has warned Americans to avoid Vietnam because of the disease.
Source: The Southeast Asian Times.

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Hong Kong Hospital Chief Falls Ill With Pneumonia
Hong Kong, March 25: Hong Kong Health Authority Chief Executive Dr William Ho is in hospital with symptoms of pneumonia. But it is not known if he has been stricken with Sarc, severe acute respiratory syndrome.Dr Ho had been working on the outbreak that has killed 18 people around the world for the past few weeks, visiting hospitals, briefing senior government officials and meeting the press. Dr Ho’s was hospitalised as two more people died overnight in Hong Kong bringing the death toll in the Territory to 10. His hospitalisation has fueled fears that the killer respiratory virus that has infected hundreds worldwide could be spreading faster than first thought.
Source: Channel News Asia.

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