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Doctors identify deadly pneumonia virus

REUTERS, Hong Kong
Doctors in Hong Kong have scored a major breakthrough in identifying a deadly pneumonia virus that has killed at least 11 people and left hundreds ill as it races around the world.
Medical experts said the discovery would make the disease easier to diagnose and opened the way for a vaccine to be developed. But they stressed more lab work had to be done to pin down the exact make-up of the virus and scientists had not ruled out that it might be a new strain.
"From the shape of the virus, it belongs to the paramyxoviridae family," said virologist John Tam at the Chinese University in Hong Kong.
Though the symptoms appear similar, influenza was not a member of the that family, said Lo Wing-lok, an infectious disease expert.
World health authorities have long been preparing for some new strain of flu they fear could repeat the devastation of the 1918 pan-
demic that killed an estimated 20 million people.
Scientists have been working around the clock to identify the agent causing the contagious disease, which has spread quickly around the world with travellers from parts ofAsia.
Most cases have been in China, Hong Kong and Vietnam, but suspected cases have been reported in Australia, Britain, Brunei, Canada, Spain and the United States.
Most of the infections are concentrated in Hong Kong and Vietnam, stretching public health resources.
Health officials in Hong Kong said on Tuesday new cases of the disease had been discovered in two more hospitals, sparking fear that it was slowly spreading into the community of nearly seven million people.
Most of the cases have been medical staff at hospitals or relatives of people who have fallen ill.
A 66-year-old French doctor at the Vietnam-France Hospital in Hanoi died early on Wednesday, the second person to die from the
disease in Vietnam. A nurse died at the weekend.
Nearly 60 people are fighting the disease in the capital Hanoi and health officials said two people with suspected symptoms, a Japanese and an American, were in hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.
Two people have died of the disease in Canada.
In Hong Kong, two people have died of the disease while a third, an elderly man, is believed to have died of it on Tuesday night but authorities have not confirmed the cause of death.
About 123 people are known to be infected in Hong Kong, where authorities temporarily closed the emergency clinic at the Prince of Wales Hospital on Wednesday to give exhausted staff a break.
Of those infected, 111 are suffering severe pneumonia and most are in that hospital.
But the identification of the virus is holding out some hope.