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16 May 2003 SARS outbreak prevention training to be held in Brest   Epidemiological and healthcare officers, railroad personnel, police and military units in Brest will take part in an exercise scheduled for May 16 to practice the coordination of efforts to prevent a SARS outbreak if an infected person arrives in the city by train, Alla Korzan, chief of the regional epidemiological agency, told BelaPAN. Unfortunately, the official said, a SARS patient may come to Brest both from Moscow, the Minsk international airport and any western country. The regional epidemiological and health agencies are preparing "in the most serious manner" to respond to a possible SARS threat, Ms. Korzan said. The regional health authorities have given all necessary information about the disease to all healthcare workers in the region, including those in the remotest settlements, she noted. According her, drugstores have the necessary amount of masks and medicines in stock; medical examinations are being conducted at border checkpoints and Brest's railroad station; masks have been distributed to border and customs officers. Ms. Korzan described as a manifestation of "extremely high vigilance" the recent efforts of border guards who got a suspected Mongolian SARS patient off the train bound for Moscow. The diagnosis, however, was not confirmed. "We are not fueling the tension or alarming the population, but just doing large-scale work, preparing for facing the infection in order to protect people," Ms. Korzan stressed.

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