Fed: Three children confirmed Australia's first SARS victims
Three children admitted to a Victorian hospital while on holiday from Canada earlierthis month are believed to have been Australia's first cases of SARS.
Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer Professor RICHARD SMALLWOOD says the children havebeen listed as probable Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome victims with the World HealthOrganisation.
With no reliable test for SARS, Professor SMALLWOOD says the disease could only bediagnosed after other possible illnesses were ruled out.
He says the HOGARTH children are fully recovered and have not passed the virus on.
The HOGARTH family were visiting the children's grandparents at Shepparton, in thestate's north, when four-year-old ISABELLE developed flu-like symptoms on April 4.
Six-year-old THOMAS and 18-month-old JACK showed similar symptoms the following day,and joined their sister in an isolation ward at Melbourne's Monash Medical Centre.
The Australian-born, Toronto-based children recovered and were released on April 7.
SARS has killed at least 162 people worldwide, and infected more than 3,000.
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