Torn trash bag linked to SARS case

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http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/19/taiwan.sars.ap/index.html

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- A torn plastic trash bag that leaked liquid contaminated with the SARS virus was the likely cause of Taiwan's first infection in five months, investigators said.

The bag was handled by the 44-year-old scientist who apparently became infected in his military laboratory while studying how Chinese medicinal herbs affect the highly contagious virus, investigator Chang Shang-tsun said at a news conference on Friday.

Hmmm. If it happened once....