All of its SARS victims, it turned out, had visited Jen Chi Hospital.
In the experiments, macaques infected with the virus developed the same symptoms as human SARS victims.
Eason has also been an active participant in HK's fundraising campaigns such as the 2003 fundraiser for SARS victims and the 2008 fundraiser for Sichuan Earthquake victims.
Dr. Leung and other doctors also said that the government's tally of SARS victims has excluded dozens of cases of pneumonia that might well be SARS.
Today, every bed held a SARS victim.
Because SARS victims spread the virus most quickly when they are very sick, Hong Kong has declared a "yellow alert."
In China and in much of Asia, more than 30 percent of SARS victims have been hospital workers.
All told, the Linhe area now has more than 100 cases of SARS, many of them traced to the city's first SARS victim, Dr. Li.
Many SARS victims in Asia are the families of health care workers.
With so many cases here, police and health care workers have been unable to trace many contacts who are not in the same households as SARS victims.