Dr. Mederski, of North York General Hospital, said yesterday that there are people who have mild cases of the disease — some display no symptoms whatsoever — but carry the SARS virus and, in rare cases, could spread it to others.
"Although the epicentre of the infection, at least in Toronto, may have stemmed from a hospital base, the subsequent expansion of that illness in my opinion has undoubtedly gone far beyond clinical institutions and may be in the community, but in a much softer form," she said.