SARS, lay epidemiology, and fear
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SARS, lay epidemiology, and fear.
1 describe the fears that surround severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). In the past few weeks, our outpatient department in Germany has received numerous calls from worried doctors of companies doing business in Asia. These calls have increased since the claim was made that within 2 years every citizen of Hong Kong will be infected with SARS. A German newspaper 2 fitted an exponential curv...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(03)13335-1