Singapore confirms new SARS case

Asia CNN ^ | 9.09.03

[Dr. Marten]

The WHO says the Singapore case poses a 'low risk' to general public health.

SINGAPORE -- Singapore authorities say a 27-year-old man has SARS, the world's first case since a global outbreak was declared over in July.

Singaporean officials confirmed the laboratory technician had SARS after results from a second test were released Tuesday, and have ordered 25 people who have been in contact with the man to stay at home.

[keri]

ping

[blam]

SARS bump.

[11B3]

Heeeeeere's Johnny! (Jack Nicholson, in The Shining.)

Just in time for the fall season as predicted by many. We'll see how far it goes this time.

[per loin]

So far, none of them is ill, and it is unclear how the man -- an unnamed post-doctoral student working on the West Nile virus -- caught the flu-like illness.

The most interesting sentence in the article.

[Dog Gone]

Without the inflamed lungs, he's likely to recover easily. But is the virus mutating? Perhaps into something less deadly?

Or is this just a fluke?

Regardless, this is probably just the first episode of many. A story all of us wanted to put behind us is almost certainly not over.

[per loin]

But is the virus mutating?

Given where he worked, as a lab research guy with virii, one is tempted to ask whether the virus is being mutated.

[Dog Gone]

Are you suggesting that someone would mutate the virus into something less dangerous?

[per loin]

Dunno. But when the only case of SARS turns out to be a person who works with virii, I have a difficult time not suspecting that he caught it at work.