- TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Two
colleagues who had close contact with Taiwan's SARS-infected scientist
are now in the United States, a health official said Thursday, as about
90 people in two countries were placed in quarantine.
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- Singapore has ordered about 70 people to stay in isolation
as a precaution, as were 22 people in Taiwan. Only the scientist has so
far shown signs of the disease.
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- The man's colleagues went to Singapore with the researcher
on Dec. 7 and later traveled to the United States, said Shih Wen-yi, a
spokesman for Taiwan's Center for Disease Control.
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- Shih did not say where the colleagues were staying in
the United States, but said they planned to return to Taiwan on Friday.
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- Two other colleagues who traveled with the SARS patient
have been quarantined, Shih said.
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- The 44-year-old researcher who was infected was studying
SARS at a state-funded laboratory in Taipei.
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- A total of 22 people who had contact with the researcher
have been ordered into quarantine in Taiwan, Shih said. Those quarantined
included 18 passengers who were on the China Airlines flight with the patient
when he returned from Singapore on Dec. 10, he said.
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- Five of those passengers were foreigners, and officials
are having difficulty contacting them, said Shih, who didn't provide the
passengers' nationalities.
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- Officials have said the SARS patient was not showing
symptoms during his travels, so it was unlikely that he infected others.
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