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South Africa has kept a man in quarantine Tuesday after the person showed the symptoms of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), the South African Press Association reported on Wednesday.

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South Africa has kept a man in quarantine Tuesday after the person showed the symptoms of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), the South African Press Association reported on Wednesday.

Jane van der Merwe, spokesman for the Crompton Hospital in the eastern port city of Durban, said the 30-year-old man had returnedfrom Vietnam on Monday and was feeling unwell by Tuesday.

He went to the casualty department of Crompton Hospital where the doctor on duty, observing the man's high temperature and breathing difficulties, admitted him to the isolation ward.

Van der Merwe said the man's condition was improving and he was categorized as "low risk," but the results of tests conducted by the National Center for Infectious Diseases would only be known onFriday.

In any event the patient would be kept in isolation under strict observation for at least two weeks as a precautionary measure until all danger of infection was past, van der Merwe said.

Till now, South African has not found one confirmed SARS patient, but the South African Health Department and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) was maintaining a closewatch on possible SARS cases.

The only incidence of possible SARS in South Africa occurred ina man who had visited Hong Kong and exhibited certain symptoms consistent with SARS -- difficulty with breathing and a high temperature among others.

The man later died from a cardiac condition unrelated to SARS, the hospital authority said.

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