MONTREAL - About 300 people in Montreal have been asked to stay at home because of concern they may have been exposed to SARS by a man from Ontario.
A Toronto man who attended a financial training conference in Quebec last weekend has since checked himself into hospital with SARS–like symptoms.
Roughly 450 were at the meeting–more than 300 from Montreal. Another 90 were from the United States.
The head of the infectious diseases unit of Montreal's public health department, Dr. John Carsley, said officials have tracked down everyone involved and recommended they go into quarantine.
"We expect that most people were exposed very, very little," Carsley told a news conference on Thursday.
"But given that everybody was in the same room for three and a half or four hours, and another two hours in the evening, we felt that we couldn't judge individual exposures, and that we must consider everybody."
The precautionary, 10–day quarantine will end this Tuesday.
Details about the conference, including the name of the financial company and the hotel, have not been released.
Carsley said there's no danger to the general public, and that so far none of the people at the meeting has developed SARS–like symptoms.