Five patients treated for mystery respiratory disease in Hong Kong
Pastor Dale Morgan
Five patients treated for mystery respiratory disease in Hong Kong*
June 18, 2008, 3:34 GMT
Hong Kong - Five patients were in isolation Wednesday in a Hong Kong
hospital, suffering from a mystery respiratory disease, government-run
radio said.
The five patients were transferred from the city's Castle Peak Hospital,
where they fell ill, to an isolation unit at Tuen Mun Hospital, where
they were undergoing further tests Wednesday.
All five patients tested negative for influenza A and B, a hospital
spokesman told the government-run radio station RTHK.
Hong Kong has been on alert over cases of respiratory illness since 2003
when an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, killed
299 people and infected 1,755 after spreading to the former British
colony from China.