HONG KONG - A new report says a SARS patient in Hong Kong spread the disease to hundreds of others in an apartment complex when infected diarrhea leaked through sewage pipes into the water system.
INDEPTH: SARS
The outbreak at the Amoy Gardens complex left 324 people with SARS. About 40 per cent of those cases happened in one building.
Health officials say the disease was brought into the building by an infected man who went there twice to visit his brother in March.
Spread by sewage
As more people became ill, contaminated feces spread the virus through the faulty sewage system.
The SARS virus may have been sucked into homes through fans and was probably also spread by person-to-person contact, health officials said.
SARS has infected 1,297 people in Hong Kong.
To help slow the spread, everyone leaving Hong Kong must now have their temperature taken. Those with a fever must be checked by a doctor.
There's also a heightened alert at airports in India.
That country reported its first case of SARS on Thursday ? a man who'd visited Hong Kong and Singapore. He has been quarantined.
Written by CBC News Online staff
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