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LONDON (Reuters) - Health authorities around the globe were beginning to suspect on Tuesday that the mysterious strain of pneumonia spreading from the Asia-Pacific region may be a new microbe. Ten people have died and hundreds more are ill with symptoms of the disease, which has spread rapidly via air travel to Europe, the United States and Australia. Scientists in several countries have been working to identify the cause of the illness but have so far been unsuccessful, which health officials say suggests it could be a new micro-organism. The WHO, which is co-ordinating the international response with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, expects more people in more countries to be become ill. The illness is known as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and has killed two people in Canada, two in Hong Kong and one in Vietnam. Five have died in mainland China although experts say it is not yet clear if those cases are related. Most cases have been in populous Hong Kong, where 123 people are ill; Vietnam, which has reported nearly 60 cases; and Singapore with 23 sick people. Suspected cases have been reported in Australia, Britain, Germany and the United States...
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