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New
SARS alert in Hong Kong as nine elderly hospitalised Yahoo
News, September 19, 2003
HONG
KONG (AFP) - A Hong Kong hospital has raised a new SARS alert after nine
residents of a home for the elderly were treated for fever and respiratory
tract infection, a health department spokesman said. "We
are still awaiting results of further tests," he said Friday. All
nine were said to be in a stable condition at Tseung Kong O Hospital in
the eastern Kowloon district, he said. The
incident comes after a similar SARS alert in which the first stage of a
new three-tier SARS warning was raised for first time early this week. Seven
patients at Hong Kong's Castle Peak Hospital on Wednesday developed high
fever and upper respiratory tract infections -- symptoms of the deadly
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus -- but later tests showed
flu. On
Tuesday, a 34-year-old Hong Kong woman suspected of having SARS was
cleared by health officials, easing fears of a re-emergence of the disease
which killed nearly 300 people in the territory earlier this year. Earlier
this year SARS struck down more than 8,000 people and left more than 900
dead in 32 countries, with some 349 of the fatalities and 5,327 of the
infections recorded in China. Hong
Kong was the second worst-affected region by with 297 SARS-related deaths
and nearly 1,800 infections. Copyright
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