Businessman becomes first to contract Sars in Britain By Jeremy Laurance and David Brown 12 April 2003 The first case of a potentially lethal virus caught in Britain was announced last night as health officials tried to trace anyone who had been in contact with an infected Hong Kong businessman. The British patient is thought to have been infected with Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome) during a two-hour business meeting in London. He is being treated in isolation at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, north-west London. Health officials revealed that a 48-year-old Hong Kong businessman who had attended the meeting...