Taiwan reports 1st suspected winter SARS case...Kaohsiung reports suspected SARS case 2003/11/19 TAIPEI, Taiwan, The China Post Staff A Kaohsiung hospital yesterday reported this winter's first SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) case in Taiwan. Doctors at the Union Hospital said they diagnosed a resident of the southern Taiwan port city as a suspected SARS case. The resident, whose identity was withheld, visited the hospital in the after- noon. He showed a typical SARS symptom of a high fever, doctors said. "He suffered from a 37.5 degree fever for two days before coming to us," one doctor The Kaohsiung resident returned from a trip to China not long ago. After the diagnosis, the patient was assigned to a pediatric ward, where a commotion took place. Mothers of in-patient children complained about the treatment the hospital is giving the SARS case in isolation in the pediatric ward.