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Long Island Boy suspected of having SARS following trip to Toronto.

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Second Nassau SARS Case Suspected

By Dawn MacKeen

Along with the odometer, a 14-year-old Nassau County boy's fever climbed as he rode back Monday from Toronto with his family. A cough soon followed. On Thursday, he became the second Nassau resident believed to have SARS.
Nassau health officials stress there's no cause for alarm, since the teen has not been in contact with the general public since his return. The people he came into contact with on Long Island have been notified and are being monitored. The patient is in isolation at a local hospital, which officials wouldn't identify, with pneumonia.
"People in Nassau County do not have to worry about getting SARS at this point, and hopefully that will continue to be the case," said David Ackman, health commissioner for Nassau County. A total of 38 suspected cases have been reported in New York State.
There have been 4,649 cases worldwide and 274 deaths, according to the World Health Organization. The agency recently advised against traveling to Toronto, Beijing and the Shanxi Province in China, the regions hardest hit by severe acute respiratory syndrome. Both cases in Nassau County were believed to been contracted elsewhere, a point public health officials stressed...