New SARS case linked to laboratory
CategoriesSingapore authorities and now also WHO official Shigeru Omi have confirmed that a researcher in a government laboratory ... "where the SARS virus is cultured". This is the second known infection in a research lab - the first one being the very first person to die from the virus, named "patient zero".
I am not advocating a conspiratorial view of the SARS epidemic, but there are some strange inconsistencies in the appearance and distribution of the illness, which can be found on SARS related sites here, here and there.
Meanwhile, we are told in cubical headlines in an Italian paper, today that we may expect a SARS outbreak in the winter. Sounds someone is getting into gear re-defining the normal yearly winter outbreaks of cold, influenza and pneumonia as part of the SARS scenario.
Update 23 September 2003:
Health Ministry panel says EHI laboratory source of SARS (article on Channelnewsasia)
WHO official: Singaporean researcher may have caught SARS in lab
www.chinaview.cn 2003-09-10 16:37
SINGAPORE, Sept. 10 (Xinhuanet)-- The 27-year-old Singaporean researcher, who has been classified as a new probable SARS case, may have caught the disease while working in a lab that is investigating the virus, local TV reported on Wednesday.Channelnewsasia, a local TV station said on its website that WHO Western Pacific regional director Shigeru Omi made the remarksin Manila on Wednesday.
"It is possible that this person was exposed to the virus one way or another," Omi was quoted as saying. "I'm just sharing my view. Technically it makes sense," said Omi.
The TV report said that Omi was informed by Singaporean health authorities that the researcher had visited the laboratory where the SARS virus was kept.
Meanwhile, Singaporean Minister of State for Health Balaji Sadasivan, who was in Manila for a health conference said on Wednesday that the researcher's exposure to the SARS virus "is most likely linked to that laboratory ... where the SARS virus is cultured," according to the Channelnewsasia report.
The microbiology laboratory in the National University of Singapore and the Environment Health Institute (EHI) laboratory of the National Environment Agency, where the infected researcher had been working are both closed. Staff members working at the two labs were asked by Singapore's Health Ministry to stay at home until the "all-clear" is given.
The Health Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that a 27-year-old post-doctoral student doing some research work on the West Nile virus had tested positive for SARS.
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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Wednesday September 10 2003
updated on Monday October 6 2008URL of this article:
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