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Govt sends NICD team to Bhopal to test SARS ‘victim’

Following reports of a possible SARS outbreak in certain sections of the media, the Ministry of Health is sending a two-member team from the...

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Following reports of a possible SARS outbreak in certain sections of the media, the Ministry of Health is sending a two-member team from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases to Bhopal.

Though the Government has ruled out that the nine deaths, reported in a Bhopal hospital in the past three months, were due to SARS, the team will examine the case of an 18-year-old boy in Bhopal.

‘‘The doctor attending the patient has confirmed that he does not fit the WHO definition of a SARS victim,’’ said Dr S.P. Agarwal, Director General Health Services.

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