Government Confirms SARS; WHO Still Leery
Singapore said tests had confirmed that a 27-year-old medical researcher had SARS -- the first case since the illness was reported contained in June -- but the World Health Organization said it wanted more tests.
WHO spokesman Dick Thompson stressed that he was not casting doubt on Singapore’s results. “We are urging that people take necessary precautions as if this were SARS, but at this moment it doesn’t fit the clinical definition,” he said.
Singapore will send samples to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The man and 25 people who had contact with him are quarantined.
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