...Virus genetic material was discovered in patient stool and rectal swabs, Xinhua said on Sunday (Feb 2). That means the pathogen might be transmitted along the faecal-oral route, not just from coming into contact with virus-laden droplets emitted from a sick person's cough......A virus-laden aerosol plume emanating from a Sars patient with diarrhoea was implicated in possibly hundreds of cases at Hong Kong's Amoy Gardens housing complex in 2003.