[per loin]

The initial WHO worldwide warning seemed early, given the number of cases at that time. Perhaps WHO knew that a flight engineer was one of the cases.

[Mother Abigail]

A second man has died in Hong Kong after being stricken by a mysterious pneumonia, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The illness is now believed to have claimed at least 11 lives in Asia and Canada.

"The man died last night," a Hospital Authority spokeswoman told AFP. "We are investigating the cause of the death," she said.
The man, whose identity was not immediately released, was among 111 people in Hong Kong with the virus, called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), according to official statistics yesterday.

He died at the Prince of Wales