BEIJING (AFX-ASIA) - A suspected case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS) in southern Guangdong province was upgraded Tuesday to a confirmed case,
a senior provincial health official told Agence France-Presse.
"The case has been confirmed," Feng Shaoming, spokesman for the Guangdong
Center for Disease Control, said.
"Our experts at the Center for Disease Control have made many tests and they
are all positive.
"So far the Ministry of Health has not announced it, nor has the World
Health Organization (WHO)."
Three experts from the WHO were in the provincial capital of Guangzhou
Tuesday and were going over the test results, Feng said.
He further acknowledged that the case would not be officially upgraded to a
confirmed case until the Ministry of Health made a formal announcement.
"I don't know when they will, it is up to them, but our experts here have
confirmed it."
Wang Maowu, director of the national Chinese Centre for Disease Control,
told AFP an official statement was likely to be issued Wednesday.
China's health ministry announced Saturday the discovery of a suspected case
of SARS in a 32-year-old man in the Guangdong provincial capital of Guangzhou,
near where the virus was first detected last year.
The freelance journalist, identified only as Luo, developed a fever on Dec
16 and was hospitalized with pneumonia in the right lung on Dec 20.
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