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In response to media enquiries on a 29-year-old expatriate woman suspected to have been infected with tuberculosis (TB) and who subsequently died in the United Kingdom (UK) in April, a spokesman for the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health said today (July 16) that findings of laboratory tests by the UK hospital concerned yielded negative results for TB.
The spokesman said the result tallied with the findings of the culture tests conducted earlier by the Queen Mary Hospital.
Regarding the one-way permit holder from the Mainland with suspected TB in June, the spokesman said clinical and laboratory evidence suggested the man had multidrug-resistant TB.
"The patient is now receiving appropriate treatment in Kowloon Hospital," the spokesman said, adding that he was in stable condition.
Ends/Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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