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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (10860)	4/25/2003 4:24:04 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Respond to of 14610

Actually I mean trunk <g> Gee....I guess that guy RANTING about how safe Toronto is might be hiding something Minnesota Has First 'Probable' SARS Case Boy, 2, Is Among 'Probable' Cases Listed In United States POSTED: 1:33 p.m. EDT April 25, 2003 UPDATED: 1:49 p.m. EDT April 25, 2003 Minnesota health officials are closely monitoring the health of a 2-year-old Ramsey County boy who has become the first "probable" case of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Minnesota. The boy fits the criteria -- including a recent visit to Toronto -- and was doing well enough to be released from a hospital Thursday. He's one of 41 cases considered probable by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as of Friday morning, state officials said. State Epidemiologist Harry Hull said the case doesn't mean Minnesotans are now at increased risk of getting SARS. The epidemic that has closed schools across several Asian countries, as well as change how people socialize and travel, prompted China Thursday to quarantine 4,000 Beijing residents suspected to have the potentially fatal disease. SARS appears to have made inroads into Ontario, which borders Minnesota to the north, but it has been business travel to Asia among metro area companies that has been the highest profile effect of the illness. Best Buy and Hutchinson Technology Inc. have both restricted travel to China and Singapore, and the University of Minnesota asked its traveling faculty and students to return from parts of China. Clinical specimens from the Ramsey County boy have been sent to the CDC to be tested for the virus thought to cause SARS. Officials won't know for three or four weeks, when they get an antibody test back, whether the boy had SARS.