Doctors put suspected SARS case down to pneumonia

It is rather unlikely that a man who fell ill after a two month stay in Singapore and is now in hospital in Gdańsk, is suffering from SARS, a special team of doctors said yesterday. "He is better now," said doctor Andrzej Galubiński, adding that the man will be thoroughly examined on Thursday for final exclusion of the disease. "If the results are satis factory we will be able to move the patient from the SARS risk group to a group of people who suffer from pneumonia," explained Galubiński. Although doctors are sure that the patient has not been infected with SARS, Poland is still listed in the statistics of the World Health Organization as a country where such a case has been recorded. "Poland will disappear from the list as soon as SARS is undoubtedly excluded," said Poland's chief health inspector Andrzej Trybusz. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A5) A.Z.