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Wednesday, April 30, 2003 (Philippines)
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(The Sun.Star website is updated every 1 a.m., Philippine time and as often as news alerts from the network come in. If you are having difficulty getting the updates, click on the refresh button of your browser. -- Editors)
| JUST MAKING SURE. Nursing students of the Benguet State University wear surgical masks as they walk pass the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center Contagious Disease Pavilion, where a 21-year-old female Indian missionary suspected of carrying the deadly Sars virus is now confined. Sun.Star Foto/Harley F. Palangchao |
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BAGUIO -- Health officials in Baguio City immediately isolated Tuesday four persons who had contact with the 21-year-old female Indian missionary presently confined at the Contagious Disease Pavilion of the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center for probable Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) infection.
Dr. Cecilia Brillantes, head of the Epedimiology and Surveillance Unit of the Baguio Health Department, told Sun.Star they also launched a contact-tracing procedure for the around 30 passengers who traveled with the probable Sars case in an air-conditioned bus on their way to Baguio late Saturday afternoon.
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