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| Dr. Allison McGeer |
Dr. Allison McGeer, director of infection control at Mt. Sinai Hospital is heading to Saudi Arabia where officials are asking for help to figure out what strain of SARS has popped up in that country. McGeer is a renowned expert in such matters. A spokesperson for the World Health Organization says two people from the global health agency are also travelling to Saudi Arabia to consult on the outbreak, which appears to have involved spread of the new virus among patients in hospitals in the city. Saudi Arabia announced last week that it had confirmed a group of seven new cases of infection with the virus in al Hofuf, five of whom were already dead. CTV
