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Canadian province seeks to quarantine thousands as SARS cases rise

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TORONTO (AFP) - Health officials in Ontario, Canada's largest province, took drastic precautionary measures against the potential spread of a deadly form of pneumonia that has killed three in Canada and possibly infected another 29.

Toronto's Medical Officer of Health Sheela Basrur said she was advising thousands of people who visited a Scarborough hospital, where one of the victims of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) died, to put themselves under voluntary quarantine.

Basrur said anyone who visited Scarborough Grace Hospital in-patient ward since March 16 should wear a mask and stay at home for 10 days from his or her last visit there.

"This number will be in the thousands," she admitted, noting the outbreak of SARS -- or atypical pneumonia -- in the Toronto area was the largest outside Asia.

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