[CathyRyan]

SARS-infected health worker ‘belligerent’

Ontario health officials say they are worried that a SARS-infected health worker who should have known better attended funeral and church services last week and may have infected “hundreds.”

At a press conference on Monday morning, Dr. Hanif Kassam, York Region’s acting medical officer of health, said the man had all the symptoms of severe acute respiratory syndrome but ignored voluntary quarantine orders and attended the services anyway.

“He had a fever, he was coughing, and he potentially put many others at risk,” Dr. Kassam said.

When public health contacted the man, who works at an unidentified downtown Toronto hospital, told him he should have quarantined himself, he became “obnoxious, threatening and belligerent,” Dr. Kassam said.

He said he may issue a court order on the man this afternoon and did not rule out legal action.

For the rest of the story....

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.wsars0421/BNStory/Nationa

[aristeides]

That story from The Age talks about SARS attacking the nervous system. Could it affect mental health? Could that guy's belligerence be a result of the disease?

[Joe Hadenuf]

Ontario health officials say they are worried that a SARS-infected health worker who should have known better attended funeral and church services last week and may have infected “hundreds.”

Boy, kinda makes you want to jump into a sealed tube with 300 other people.....Fly the infected skies.......

[per loin]

As my charts and graphs were getting a bit large to stick into these threads, I put up a website that holds them. They are here.