] U.S. health officials are reporting what appears to be
] the first domestic case of the respiratory disease known
] as SARS being spread at the workplace.
]
] The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is
] paying close attention to a 47-year-old woman from
] Gainesville, Florida, who is believed to have contracted
] Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS. She works
] with a 60-year-old woman who recently visited Asia, and
] was hospitalized last week with a suspicious respiratory
] infection.
]
] The CDC says, if both cases are confirmed as SARS, it
] would constitute the first instance in the United States
] in which the disease appears to have been spread in the
] workplace.

Poor hand washing hygeine is listed by the CDC as the number one cause of the spread of infection.