Yahoo! News - Heightened Alert as Killer Bug Cases Rise
Health ministries and airport authorities around the globe were on high alert as Hong Kong's Health Minister Yeoh Eng-kiong announced the number of people infected with the illness there had nearly doubled.
Although he said it was too early to talk of an epidemic, he confirmed that nearly 100 people in Hong Kong, most of them medical staff, had fallen ill.
Hours later Britain reported its first suspected case.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a global health alert, the first in a decade, about the unusual strain, which does not respond to treatment and has no known cause.
Monday, March 17, 2003
Yahoo! News - Heightened Alert as Killer Bug Cases Rise
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