- (AFP) -- Singapore health authorities quarantined 25
people who had been in contact with a local man confirmed to have contracted
SARS.
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- Those ordered into home quarantine included the patient's
relatives and fellow patients at the Singapore General Hospital, the health
ministry said Tuesday.
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- Also ordered confined was a Chinese traditional medicine
practitioner whom the patient, a 27-year-old post-graduate student working
in a university laboratory, had consulted.
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- Acting Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan told a news conference
that "it appears to be a single isolated case and the patient is currently
isolated at the Communicable Disease Centre."
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- Khaw said he did not think new case heralded a repeat
of the SARS crisis which hit East Asia in the second quarter of the year,
but the government had ordered the quarantines as a precaution.
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- In Singapore anyone suspected of having come into close
contact with a SARS case can be ordered quarantined for 10 days, believed
to be the incubation period of the virus.
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- If the quarantined person shows no signs of the disease
after 10 days, the order is lifted.
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- Those showing symptoms are brought to a designated SARS
center for treatment.
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