China seals off SARS lab after infections

AP , BEIJING
Sunday, Apr 25, 2004,Page 1

China sealed off a SARS research lab in its capital yesterday after two lab workers fell ill and the mother of one died in what could be the world's first SARS fatality this year.

A nurse who looked after one of the ill lab workers caught the disease and was also in isolation, the government said.

The lab infections and their transmission to others "are an embarrassment to China," said World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman Bob Dietz. "It's not good that this happened in the lab. It's not good that the health of these people was apparently not monitored."

However, the virus is "not out in the public," he said. "The Ground Zero has been identified."

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