| hi.. i got this news from a hk newspaper. http://scmp.com PNEUMONIA OUTBREAK A second victim is confirmed in Shanghai BILL SAVADOVE in Shanghai Shanghai yesterday announced its second confirmed case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) - the father of its first victim - as a team from the World Health Organisation (WHO) prepared to visit the city. The 68-year-old man, surnamed Li, began to show symptoms four days after his daughter was admitted to hospital after returning from a business trip to southern China, the local government said. The Sars outbreak is believed to have originated in Guangdong province. Meanwhile, the US consulate in Shanghai said it believed the number of suspected cases in the city stood at six - four Chinese nationals and two foreigners. A spokesman for the Shanghai Health Bureau declined to comment on the figures. Shanghai officials said earlier this week that the city had only four suspected cases - two foreigners and two mainland residents. Health workers say the true number is far higher. WHO experts are tentatively planning to visit Shanghai as early as the beginning of next week to investigate and offer advice to city health officials. Diplomats said they had heard rumours of suspected cases in the cities of Ningbo and Suzhou, but health officials there denied there were any cases. If the rumours prove true, they will be the first known cases in Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces, which border Shanghai. The Shanghai Health Bureau spokesman said the latest victim was confirmed to have Sars early yesterday. The authorities announced the first possible case on April 2, and confirmed it two days later. But the city did not confirm that her father had Sars until yesterday. The authorities said both patients were stable. |
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