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The World Health Organization has issued a global alert as reports of over 150 cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome, an atypical pneumonia of unknown cause, came in from Vietnam and Hong Kong, as well as Canada, Taiwan, Thailand, and Singapore.
By 17 March nine deaths had been reported, seven in Asia and two in Canada. Doctors were also treating two people in Frankfurt, Germany, who had flown in from Singapore and a patient in Manchester, who had recently flown in from Hong Kong (see article below).
WHO is working with authorities in China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam to establish whether or not recent outbreaks in the three countries are related.
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