HONG KONG: More than 200 people here have now contracted a mystery disease, and one more victim has died, officials said yesterday as health chiefs from this territory and China discussed ways to co-operate against the spread of infectious illnesses.
The man who died in the Prince of Wales Hospital, where most of the territory's patients have been infected, was in his 70s and also had blood disease, so it was not immediately certain what killed him, said Dr Ko Wing-man, spokesman for the Hospital Authority.