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Suspect case isolated
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2004-01-13 14:26
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None of 42 people who had close contact with a new suspected case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Guangdong have developed a fever or other SARS symptoms, officials said yesterday.
All the people who were in contact with the victim are under quarantine now and expected to finish medical observation within a week.
Among them, 32 are reportedly medical workers.
The 32-year-old freelance television producer, surnamed Luo, with the suspected SARS infection is now in stable condition and is in isolation at Guangzhou No 8 People's Hospital, a SARS designation hospital in the Guangdong provincial capital.
A panel of experts determined Luo to be a highly suspected SARS patient on Friday after finding the SARS coronal virus in one of his lungs.
Experts from the Ministry of Health and Guangdong Province now are working to confirm whether the person does in fact have SARS, said Deng Haihua, a press official from the Ministry of Health.
Meanwhile, the ministry has asked the World Health Organization (WHO) to supply a laboratory expert to help verify the results of the tests done so far, and to help with further investigations, Roy Wadia, media spokesman of WHO Beijing office, said. The expert is expected to arrive in Beijing today.
The WHO has also recommended samples be sent overseas for international verification of the test results.
So far the test results have been confusing, with some positives and some negatives, hence the need for more testing and verification. The test results will be published in five to seven days, a local doctor from Guangdong said.
Luo who lives in Guangzhou's Panyu District began to have fever, headache and other symptoms on December 16.
He was diagnosed with pneumonia in Guangzhou No 1 Zhongshan Hospital, affiliated to Sun Yat-sen University on December 20 and was transferred to Guangzhou No 8 People's Hospital for isolation treatment on December 24.
If confirmed, Luo will be the world's first SARS patient infected with the fatal disease outside a laboratory since August.
It is not strange that a suspected SARS patient has surfaced now, said Gao Qiang, vice-minister of health, during a conference yesterday. The timing coincides with the common rule of an epidemic.
Experts did not believe China would witness a large scale SARS outbreak this winter and spring, with the high-level public awareness and the strengthened surveillance and treatment system after the first outbreak earlier this year. |
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