China makes preparations for possible new SARS outbreak

SARS Outbreak, Taiwan, 2003

We studied the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Taiwan, using the daily case-reporting data from May 5 to June 4 to learn how it had spread so rapidly. Our results indicate that most SARS-infected persons had symptoms and were admitted before their infections were reclassified as probable cases. This finding could indicate efficient admission, slow reclassification process, ...

SARS Outbreak in Taiwan

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Coronavirus outbreak in cheetahs: Lessons for SARS

In November 2002, a flu-like outbreak caused by a coronavirus now known as SARS-CoV occurred in Guangdong Province in China. In the space of 9 months the disease traveled to 29 countries, infected 8098 people and caused 774 deaths [1]. The SARS epidemic spread with alarming speed among health care workers attending SARS patients (e.g., 112 health care workers at Prince of Wales hospital in Hong...

Model Parameters and Outbreak Control for SARS

Control of the 2002-2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak was based on rapid diagnosis coupled with effective patient isolation. We used uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of the basic reproductive number R0 to assess the role that model parameters play in outbreak control. The transmission rate and isolation effectiveness have the largest fractional effect on R0. We estimate...

SARS outbreak and lessons learned.