SINGAPORE: World Health Organisation (WHO) investigators said yesterday that a Singapore researcher became infected with the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in a government lab and blamed insufficient lab safety training for the mistake.
The 27-year-old postdoctoral student had been working on West Nile virus research in two labs when he inexplicably came down with SARS late last month.
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