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Puzzling case raises fresh SARS questions

By JONATHAN FOWLIE and GLORIA GALLOWAY
Globe and Mail
06/11/03

Toronto and Oshawa, Ont. — Health officials are being forced to consider the possibility that SARS can be transmitted by people without symptoms, after a North Carolina man developed what appears to be the disease through contact with someone who fell ill a week later.

The worrying development emerged as Ontario Premier Ernie Eves announced the appointment of Mr. Justice Archie Campbell of Ontario Superior Court to head a commission to investigate how hospitals, health-care workers and the government reacted to the SARS outbreak.

The North Carolina traveller most likely caught the disease on one of two visits to the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care on May 16 or 17, even though no one at the facility was showing symptoms at the time, said Allison McGeer, the centre's consultant on infectious disease control.

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