First Confirmed SARS Case in UK

World | May 16, 2003, Friday // 00:00

Britain's government health authorities reported the first confirmed case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in the United Kingdom May 16. Laboratory testing "provided a positive result for the SARS coronavirus on one existing probable SARS case," the Health Protection Agency said in a written statement. Since reporting began in March, eight people in Britain have been classified as probable SARS cases but their symptoms proved to be caused by something other than SARS.

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