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                    [Title] => Experts to meet on 2 possible local SARS cases
                    [Summary] => The panel of experts on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome will convene next week to discuss the condition of two suspected SARS cases in the country, the Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday.


Dr. Consorcia Quizon, head of the DOH’s National Epidemiology Center (NEC), said the two cases will be reviewed for SARS though they have not yet developed pneumonia, which is a determining criterion for diagnosing SARS.
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"It’s raw information and we still have to confirm it. We are now verifying this information with the epidemiologists in the region," DOH epidemiologist Dr. Troy Gepte said.

The patient’s profile was not immediately available but according to another epidemiologist, Dr. Agnes Venegas, the patient may not be infected with the killer pneumonia, although he has a history of travel to Hong Kong.
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However, the National Epidemiology Center (NEC) is closely monitoring 12 more people kept in isolation in various hospitals nationwide for manifesting SARS symptoms.

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The 45-year-old nurse was admitted at the hospital on Monday morning because of high fever, difficulty in breathing and cough, which were known SARS symptoms.
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The cancer-stricken, 74-year-old Catalon, 74, got the dreaded virus from his daughter Adela, the country’s first confirmed SARS case.

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Dr. Consorcia Lim-Quizon, chief of the National Epidemiology Center, said all but one of the new cases contracted the virus from the first two SARS cases — Adela Catalon, a nursing aide who caught it in Canada, where she worked, and her father Mauricio. Both of them died. A third case, a 64-year-old German national who frequently traveled to the Philippines from Hong Kong, recovered.
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Dr. Consortia Quizon, head of the Department of Health (DOH) National Epidemiology Center (NEC), said "RT" has been without fever for 10 days now, a strong indication that she does not have SARS.
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                    [Summary] => The panel of experts on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome will convene next week to discuss the condition of two suspected SARS cases in the country, the Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday.


Dr. Consorcia Quizon, head of the DOH’s National Epidemiology Center (NEC), said the two cases will be reviewed for SARS though they have not yet developed pneumonia, which is a determining criterion for diagnosing SARS.
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"It’s raw information and we still have to confirm it. We are now verifying this information with the epidemiologists in the region," DOH epidemiologist Dr. Troy Gepte said.

The patient’s profile was not immediately available but according to another epidemiologist, Dr. Agnes Venegas, the patient may not be infected with the killer pneumonia, although he has a history of travel to Hong Kong.
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The 45-year-old nurse was admitted at the hospital on Monday morning because of high fever, difficulty in breathing and cough, which were known SARS symptoms.
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The cancer-stricken, 74-year-old Catalon, 74, got the dreaded virus from his daughter Adela, the country’s first confirmed SARS case.

A nursing assistant in Toronto, Canada, Adela went home to Barangay Vacante here last April 5 to look for an oncologist for her ailing father, not knowing that she was carrying the SARS virus.
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Dr. Consortia Quizon, head of the Department of Health (DOH) National Epidemiology Center (NEC), said "RT" has been without fever for 10 days now, a strong indication that she does not have SARS.
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