TYUMEN, January 15, (RIA Novosti) - A British national died in Yekaterinburg in the Urals, January 10. He certainly had no SARS, Nikolai Struin, dangerous infection board head of the Sverdlovsk Region's sanitary and epidemic inspection, announced today- as soon as the patient's tests were ready.
John Christie, of dual UK and New Zealand's citizenship, died of acute pneumonia. His doctors did not rule out SARS till negative tests became available.
