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| Friday, 9 January 2004 |
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Waitress declared new SARS suspect GUANGZHOU, China, Thursday (Reuters) A waitress in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong was declared a suspected SARS case on Thursday, the second to emerge in China since an epidemic that swept the world ended last year. The Health Ministry said the 20-year-old waitress, was suspected of having Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome after having been in hospital for nearly two weeks. "Forty-eight people who had had close contact with her have been isolated and 52 others who had normal contacts have been observed," the provincial health department said. None of them had displayed SARS symptoms, which include a relentless high fever and dry cough. A television producer confirmed this week as China's first SARS case since last year has recovered and he was released from hospital in Guangzhou on Thursday, the official Xinhua news agency said. |
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