The Hindu : SARS `spread' through sewage pipes

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Friday, Apr 18, 2003

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SARS `spread' through sewage pipes

HONG KONG april 17. A SARS patient visiting from southern China infected hundreds of people in a Hong Kong apartment complex when the disease apparently spread through sewage pipes connected to bathroom drains, an official report said on Thursday.

The man, who was visiting his brother, was suffering from diarrhoea. As more people in the apartment complex contracted SARS and also got diarrhoea, the virus spread further in the building — the site of Hong Kong's biggest outbreak of the deadly flu-like illness — said the Health Secretary, Yeoh Eng-kiong.Rats and cockroaches also may have spread the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome after they picked it up around the apartments, Dro. Yeoh said at a news conference.

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