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Pneumonia outbreak honk kong Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://sg.news.yahoo.com/030320/1/396mn.html http://sg.news.yahoo.com/030320/1/396mn.html Thursday March 20, 15:32 PM Global mystery pneumonia outbreak traced to Hong Kong hotel The worldwide outbreak of a mystery pneumonia is believed to have been triggered by a sick doctor from southern China who infected six other people at a Hong Kong hotel, health officials said. Hong Kong's director of health Margaret Chan said all seven people stayed on the ninth floor of the Metropole hotel in the district of Kowloon between February 15 and 27. She told reporters late Wednesday not all the guests staying on the ninth floor were infected with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and that it was believed the infection was spread when the Chinese doctor sneezed or coughed in the area around the elevator. The doctor, 64, and a 78-year-old Canadian woman later died. The other five infected hotel guests -- three women from Singapore, an elderly Canadian tourist and a local man -- have made a recovery. The disease has so far killed three people in Hong Kong, and two each in Canada and Vietnam. It has also been linked to at least three other deaths in Hong Kong. More than 270 suspected or confirmed infections have been reported, according to a toll compiled by AFP from World Health Organisation (WHO) figures and local health authorities. However, the WHO strongly suspects an earlier mystery epidemic which erupted in southern China in early February, killing at least five people and infecting some 300, may also have been SARS. Suspected cases of the epidemic, an atypical pnuemonia with flu-like symptoms, have since been reported across the globe. Print Me Now! - Back to Original Article -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright © 2002 AFP. All rights reserved. All information displayed in this section (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the contents of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presses. Copyright © 2002 Yahoo! Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Community - Help

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