BEIJING (AFX-ASIA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said more tests
need to be carried out before the suspected SARS case in southern China could be
confirmed definitively.
"The case remains an inconclusive case, or a suspected SARS case, according
to the Ministry of Health," said Roy Wadia, the WHO's Beijing-based spokesman.
"It's agreed that more tests need to be carried out, and China has agreed to
send samples overseas for testing as well," he said Tuesday.
The tests will take place at laboratories affiliated with the WHO, as
suggested by the WHO itself a few days earlier, he said.
"The Chinese ministry of health in Beijing feels that the tests that have
been done are too inconclusive," Wadia said.
The WHO's comments came after a senior Chinese health official said
yesterday that all tests of a suspected SARS case in a 32-year-old man in
Guangzhou had turned out positive.
"The case has been confirmed," Feng Shaoming, spokesman for the Guangdong
Center for Disease Control, was quoted as saying by Agence France-Presse news
agency. "Our experts at the Center for Disease Control have made many tests and
they are all positive."
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