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- Title
Coordinated Response to SARS, Vancouver, Canada.
- Authors
Skowronski, Danuta M.; Petric, Martin; Daly, Patricia; Parker, Robert A.; Bryce, Elizabeth; Doyle, Patrick W.; Noble, Michael A.; Roscoe, Diane L.; Tomblin, Joan; Yang, Tung C.; Krajden, Mel; Patrick, David M.; Pourbohloul, Babak; Swee Han Goh; Bowie, William R.; Booth, Tim F.; Tweed, S. Aleina; Perry, Thomas L.; McGeer, Allison; Brunham, Robert C.
- Abstract
Two Canadian urban areas received travelers with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) before the World Health Organization issued its alert. By July 2003, Vancouver had identified 5 cases (4 imported); Toronto reported 247 cases (3 imported) and 43 deaths. Baseline preparedness for pandemic threats may account for the absence of sustained transmission and fewer cases of SARS in Vancouver.
- Subjects
VANCOUVER (B.C.); BRITISH Columbia; SARS disease; RESPIRATORY infections; COMMUNICABLE diseases; PUBLIC health
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006, Vol 12, Issue 1, p155
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid1201.050327