SARS victim 'infected in laboratory'

A 27-year-old researcher confirmed by Singapore officials as being the city-state’s first SARS case in four months probably caught the disease while working in a laboratory investigating the virus, the junior health minister said today.

“The single case is an isolated case. There is no person-to-person transmission. So there is no outbreak… There is no danger to public health,” Singapore’s minister of state for health Balaji Sadasivan said in an interview with The Associated Press in the Philippines.