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| March 19, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From Bernama The Malaysian National News Agency)

SINGAPORE, March 19 (Bernama) -- The mysterious flu virus may not have a name yet, but Hong Kong doctors have claimed a major breakthrough by identifying its family, an afternoon tabloid, The New Paper, reported.

The bug, which causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), has been confirmed to be a virus. However, doctors stopped short of saying whether the disease is curable, it quoted the Hong Kong Standard.

The virus was identified by a team from the Prince of Wales Hospital and the Chinese University of Hong Kong as being part of the paramyxoviridae family, which includes the Nipah virus that…

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