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The passenger is a doctor from Singapore who treated one of the earliest cases there, and who flew to a medical meeting in New York City, said Dick Thompson, a spokesman for WHO. The doctor may have gone to a hospital in New York -- the agency is not certain which one -- before flying back to Singapore via Frankfurt with his wife and another doctor. Before boarding the flight, the doctor called a colleague in Singapore to describe his symptoms, and the colleague notified the World Health Organization

WHO and U.S. officials urged all travelers to be aware of the main symptoms and signs. In addition to the breathing problems, the illness can cause a dry cough and other flulike symptoms that apparently develop about two to seven days after exposure. They usually start with a sudden onset of high fever and go on to include muscle aches, headache, sore throat and shortness of breath. The Seattle Times: Cases of respiratory illness prompt health alert: Worldwide alert issued over mystery illness (GH9EHHRV) photo; The Seattle Times: Cases of respiratory illness prompt health alert (GH9EHHRV); Christian Keenan / Getty Images : Hospital staff members at the Prince of Wales hospital take preventive action by wearing face masks in Hong Kong. (0392929171)

The agency said that in the last week it had received reports of more than 150 new suspected cases of the illness, now known as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. The syndrome has caused at least nine deaths. Some victims have recovered, but no one has been up, around and healthy in the past two weeks. It apparently does not respond to anti--viral and antibiotic drugs. The cause has not been identified. Scientists do not know whether it is a virus or even an infectious agent. Although health officials have suspected avian influenza, which has infected a small number of people sporadically in Hong Kong since 1997, laboratory tests have not detected that rare strain, known as influenza A(H5N1). Laboratory scientists are focusing on the possibility of a previously unknown infectious agent. Reported cases have come from Canada and six countries in Asia -- Hong Kong and elsewhere in China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, the health organization said

The ill passenger is a doctor from Singapore who treated one of the earliest cases there, and who flew to a medical meeting in New York City, said Dick Thompson, a W.H.O. spokesman. The doctor may have gone to a hospital in New York -- the agency is not certain which one -- before flying back to Singapore via Frankfurt with his wife and another doctor. Before boarding the flight, the doctor called a colleague in Singapore to describe his symptoms, and the colleague notified the World Health Organization. Mr. Thompson, the spokesman for the W.H.O., said the cases in Toronto involved a family who returned home after flying to Hong Kong. A woman, Kwan Sui-chu, died shortly after her return. Five other family members who had not been to Hong Kong have since become ill; four are still in the hospital while the fifth, Mrs. Kwan's son, Chi Kwai Tse, died on March 13, according to Toronto Public Health officials. Toronto health officials said they were aware of two other cases in Vancouver, both people who had recently traveled to Hong Kong. C.D.C. officials are aiding in the investigation because Mrs. Kwan's daughter, who is being treated in Toronto, had flown to Atlanta recently, Mr. Thompson said

In Canada, Toronto's municipal health agency announced on Friday that a woman there, Kwan Sui-chu, had died on March 5 soon after returning from Hong Kong. Five other family members who had not been to Hong Kong recently have since become ill; four are still in the hospital while the fifth, Mrs. Kwan's son, Chi Kwai Tse, died on March 13, said Mary Margaret Crapper, a spokeswoman for Toronto Public Health. Ms. Crapper said that her agency was aware of two other cases in Canada, both in Vancouver and involving people who had also traveled recently to Hong Kong. Toronto Public Health issued an appeal on Friday night to Canadians to seek medical help if they had been in contact with Mrs. Kwan's family and were experiencing symptoms like the sudden onset of a high fever, muscle aches or other flu-like symptoms. Hanoi has had at least 42 cases and Hong Kong 43. Guangdong province, which adjoins Hong Kong in China, reported 305 cases by mid-February, including 5 deaths. Officials in Singapore said yesterday that there had been nine cases there -- three recent arrivals from Hong Kong and six people who cared for them, two of whom were hospital workers

Hundreds of people in Vietnam, Hong Kong and China have been stricken by a mysterious respiratory illness that has killed at least six people and left all the others with severe breathing difficulties from which they have yet to fully recover, worried officials of the World Health Organization said on Friday. The Geneva-based organization, a unit of the United Nations, has sent a team of experts from the United States, Japan, England, France and Australia to the affected areas. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta also is sending epidemiologists to Vietnam, where at least 42 cases have occurred, and Hong Kong, where there have been 43 cases, including an American businessman who died Thursday

Dr. Yeoh Eng-kiong, Hong Kong's secretary of health, welfare and food, said 43 hospital staff members had been admitted to hospitals with symptoms of the sickness, and 29 had been found to show signs of what is believed to be the atypical pneumonia. An American businessman who lived in Shanghai died of the illness at a Hong Kong hospital Thursday

Hundreds of people in Vietnam, Hong Kong and China have been stricken by a mysterious respiratory illness that has killed at least six people and left all the others with severe breathing difficulties from which they have yet to fully recover, worried officials of the World Health Organization said yesterday

Hundreds of people in Vietnam, Hong Kong and China have been stricken by a mysterious respiratory illness that has killed at least six people and left the others with severe breathing difficulties from which they have yet to fully recover, the World Health Organization said yesterday. Hong Kong's secretary of health, welfare and food, Dr. Yeoh Eng- kiong, said 43 hospital staff members had been admitted to hospitals with symptoms of the sickness, and 29 had been found to show signs of what is believed to be the atypical pneumonia. An American businessman who lived in Shanghai died of the illness at a Hong Kong hospital Thursday. The businessman had passed through Hong Kong to Hanoi, where he fell ill, entered a hospital and was then evacuated to Hong Kong when his condition deteriorated and the disease began spreading through the hospital staff. Officials in Vietnam said that 30 doctors and other employees had fallen ill at the hospital where the man was treated

The baby in the Dallas case was Jeanella Aranda, who had surgery on July 16 for a noncancerous liver tumor called a hamartoma. According to legal documents filed by the family's malpractice lawyer, Steven Laird of Fort Worth, Texas, damage to blood vessels during the surgery cut off the blood supply to the liver, and doctors, unable to repair the damage, had to remove Jeanella's liver. Without a transplant, she would die in 24 to 48 hours. Her parents, Cesar and Alicia Aranda, were told that one of them might be able to donate a partial liver to save their daughter. Their blood was drawn to see which parent matched Jeanella's Type O. The laboratory initially reported that Alicia Aranda matched, but then called back to say it had made a mistake and Cesar Aranda matched. In fact, the first result was correct Alicia Aranda matched but doctors accepted the second, incorrect report. In the days and weeks after the transplant, Jeanella deteriorated, developing a blood disorder, fever, kidney problems, lung hemorrhages and severe jaundice. The blood type mismatch was not detected until Aug. 5, 19 days after the surgery, when Alicia Aranda, aware that her husband had Type A blood, noticed that Jeanelle's transfusions were Type O, and asked whether the transplant had been a mismatch. Doctors determined that she was correct. The baby died the next day