04-30-03: Tourist Picked Up SARS on Rings Trip to NZ

The Dominion Post
April 30, 2003

Tourist Picked Up SARS on Rings Trip to NZ
Steve Rendle

Britain's Sun tabloid newspaper has linked a British woman's suspected case of Sars with a trip to New Zealand to visit Lord of the Rings movie locations.

Headlined "I got Sars on Lord of the Rings trip; Brit victim of terror plague", the story quotes Lin Thomas, director of Stockport's Council for Voluntary Services, who fell ill after a birthday visit to New Zealand.

Further on in the story she says her journey included a stopover in Singapore.

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