(5) Taiwan doctor tests positive for SARS

SHODOSHIMA, Japan - A health official disinfects the toilet of a hotel in Shodosima Island, Kagawa Prefecture on May 17 as a Taiwanese doctor who returned to Taipei after a sightseeing tour of western Japan was found positive for the SARS epidemic.

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