SARS Patient Recovers; Suspected Case Cleared
China’s first confirmed SARS patient of the season has recovered and will leave the hospital Thursday, the government said.
Doctors say the 32-year-old television producer from the southern province of Guangdong has had no fever since Dec. 24, the official New China News Agency reported.
In the Philippines, meanwhile, health officials said tests showed that a woman who was suspected of having severe acute respiratory syndrome after returning from Hong Kong on Dec. 20 actually had pneumonia. “This case is not a case of SARS,” Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit said.
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