Was WHO SARS-related travel advisory for Toronto ethical?

Why was Toronto included in the World Health Organization's SARS-related travel advisory?

Serology Testing for SARS-CoV-2: Benefits and Challenges

As COVID-19 was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020, it is an emerging need to discuss different aspects of this pandemic. In any pandemic, valid and rapid laboratory diagnostic tests are critically important for early diagnosis, which will increase the rate of successful treatment and more importantly prevent the spread of the disease.  

Children hospitalized with severe acute respiratory syndrome-related illness in Toronto.

OBJECTIVE An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) occurred in the greater Toronto area between February and June 2003. We describe the clinical, laboratory, and epidemiologic features of children who were admitted to the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, with a presumptive diagnosis of suspect or probable SARS. METHODS A prospective investigational study protocol was establ...

SARS Epidemic in the Press

(WHO) issued a global alert regarding severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Vietnam, Hong Kong, and China's Guangdong Province. Three days later, for the first time in its history , WHO recommended postponing nonessential travel to the affected areas and screening airline passengers (1). These initiatives, together with the awareness of the modes transmission of the coronavirus associated...

Implications of the SARS outbreak for Canadian emergency departments.

Can J Emerg Med 2003;5(5):343-7 These Recommendations were approved by the CAEP Board June 8, 2003. *Chief, Schwartz–Reisman Emergency Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ont.; and Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. †Chief, Emergency Department, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Charlottetown, PEI; and Associate Professor, Departmen...