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First Case of Atypical Pneumonia in Macao Confirmed
A British woman teacher has been diagnosed to be infected with viral pneumonia, the first case of atypical pneumonia in the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR).

Doctors from the Disease Prevention and Control Center under the SAR Health Services verified the 25-year-old British woman's symptoms similar to the definition on the pneumonia given by the World Health Organization, the Health Services said Monday.

However, the type of pneumonia found in Macao may be different from cases in Hong Kong, after over dozens of virus and bacteria were been found to be possible causes of atypical pneumonia, doctors in the center said.

The Health Services staff have begun tracing those who have had direct contacts with the British teacher.

Macao has made sufficient rehearsals of atypical pneumonia treatment and prevention after the disease broke out in Hong Kong.

On Tuesday, selling of disinfected respirators became hot in Macao, while the SAR Health Services and local taxi companies worked together to sterilize their cabs.

(Xinhua News Agency March 25, 2003)

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