Special meeting on SARS urged

EUROPE’S health ministers may be called to an emergency session in Brussels later this week to discuss the SARS crisis.

A decision is to be made today following a request by European Union Health Commissioner David Byrne for the special meeting.

This follows reports of at least 84 people in the 15 member states, including one in Ireland, suspected of having caught the virus, but so far there have been no deaths.