patient is a medical doctor from Singapore who treated one of the earliest cases of SARS there between 3 and 9 Mar 2003. On 9 Mar 2003 he himself developed fever (39.4°C), myalgia and bone pain but did not have cough, dyspnoea or sore throat. Despite this, he flew to New York City to attend a medical meeting, accompanied by his wife who is also a doctor and by his mother-in-law. Does this doctor work for Saddam Hussein? Is he a member of the Religion of Peace? The latter seems unlikely, Singapore has some of them, but not many. Still what is wrong with this guy, after a farily long term exposure to a patient with a fairly serious illness for which the causitive agent is unknown, travels to a medical convention on another contienent, thereby exposeing not just more people, but a whole bunch of doctors to it? If he doesn't work for SH, maybe he should.
Remember that he started his trip well before the WHO alert, and pneumonia is normally not very contagious. If you are seriously claiming that Doctors should not travel after treating a seriously ill patient, you might as well place them all under house arrest.