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Interfax withdraws report of SARS in Russia

MOSCOW, May 8 (Reuters) - Russia's Interfax news agency issued and then withdrew a report on Thursday saying that a man living on the border with China had become Russia's first SARS case.

A health ministry spokesman told Reuters the 25-year-old man, who has been under observation for eight days, had all the symptoms of the infection but the virus had not been isolated.

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