HK reports 61 new cases of virus, 2 more dead

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[per loin]

HONG KONG, April 11 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's government said on Friday that a deadly respiratory virus had infected 61 more people in the territory, bringing the total number of cases to 1,059.

Two more patients had died, taking the local death toll from the disease to 32, a government spokesman said.

Worldwide, more than 3,000 people have now been infected and 114 have died.

The flu-like disease, which originated in southern China, hit Hong Kong in March and has been spread around the world by air travellers.

[CathyRyan]

BEIJING (AP) - He's a businessman in his 40s. He has four children and lives in the industrial town of Foshan in southern China. And, except for a small circle of doctors and Chinese officials, that's all the world knows about the man who is cited as the world's first known case - and survivor - of SARS.

As severe acute respiratory syndrome spreads around the globe, little has been released about him, and there is no sign that any more ever will be.

http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=D9992320-58AE-4207-B304-2A1541014E21

[per loin]

I do not understand the reasons for the secrecy about this man. They say he was a businessman. What kind of business?