] 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. VOANews.com |