[Mother Abigail]

WASHINGTON, March 21 (UPI) -- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said Friday they increased the number of suspected cases of the mysterious severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak they are investigating to 22.

Officials said the agency also is investigating two cases in which Americans who contracted the pneumonia-like illness while traveling abroad might have transmitted it to others when they returned to the United States, CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding said during a teleconference.

[mewzilla]

That's 22 suspected cases, right? Any confirmed?

[Black Agnes]

Add me to a bump list if you have one.

[SauronOfMordor]

From SARS Media page

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Report of Suspected Cases Under Investigation
in the United States

This information in this table will be updated Monday through Friday.

These data were reported to the World Health Organization on March 21, 2003.

Numbers of suspected cases are expected to fluctuate as additional information becomes available.

State	Suspected cases under investigation*
California	6
Hawaii	3
Maine	1
Massachusetts	1
New Jersey	1
New Mexico	1
North Carolina	2
New York	2
Rhode Island	1
Utah	1
Virginia	2
Wisconsin	1
Total Suspected Cases Under Investigation	22

*Case definition
(http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/casedefinition.htm)

For more information, visit this CDC SARS web site.