SARS spreads to Inner Mongolia

EPIDEMIC While the WHO says there are signs that the disease is being contained elsewhere in the world, it is worried the situation in China is still not under control

REUTERS , BEIJING AND SINGAPORE

The elderly man, dubbed a "super spreader," may have infected as many as 52 people, the government said.

Nurses and air-force paramedics at the main airport, armed with the power to quarantine, are now taking the temperature of all travelers from Hong Kong and China's Guangdong Province, the two areas hit hardest by SARS.

Sick-looking people from SARS-hit regions are already quizzed on their health while stepping into Singapore, and two women who had arrived from Hong Kong and China on Thursday are now quarantined as suspected SARS cases.

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