1.   It also is urging hospitals to isolate patients who develop resistant infections to prevent the spread of the infections.

2.   Today, the World Health Organization is coordinating teams of doctors in Uganda to help local hospitals isolate patients and to track the disease to find its origin.

3.   When the disease first broke out, health officials acted as if it were contagious, isolating patients and fumigating homes.

4.   Phiri said hospital authorities have isolated the patients until medical experts from Lusaka can examine them.

5.   Finnish doctors can legally isolate patients with tuberculosis, syphilis, salmonella or polio if they believe them to pose a threat to others.

6.   He emphasized the importance of isolating patients suspected of the virus, and using nursing procedures to avoid contact with the bodily fluids of suspected carriers.

7.   Should smallpox reappear, a federal response plan calls for isolating the patient and then vaccinating those in close contact with him or her.

8.   However, officials have said there are no plans to isolate patients at this stage, neither will swimming be banned nor will those affected have their houses disinfected.

9.   Meanwhile, a suspected plague sufferer died while trying to escape from a state-run New Delhi hospital where patients are being isolated, newspapers here reported Wednesday.

10.   The measures are principally to isolate patients, bury the dead under strict medical conditions and protect and strengthen medical staff, the WHO added.