North Olympic Peninsula health care and emergency services professionals say some residents continue to be worried that the flulike disease, severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, could spread here.
And they’re asking Peninsula public health officials for information related to SARS, which originated in Asia.
The illness has killed at least 80 people in Asia and Canada — 46 of them in mainland China — and sickened at least 2,200 in more than a dozen nations as infected travelers board planes and reach other continents in hours.
“People should be informed,” Dr. Thomas Locke said Thursday.
“They should not be concerned in terms of personal risk unless they have been traveling in outbreak areas.”
Locke is the public health officer for Clallam and Jefferson counties.
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