Public Health Lessons from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome a Decade Later

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Koplan, Jeffrey P. ; Butler-Jones, David ; Tsang, Thomas ; Yu, Wang
• Description:
  The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in 2002-2003 exacted considerable human and economic costs from countries involved. It also exposed major weaknesses in several of these countries in coping with an outbreak of a newly emerged infectious disease. In the 10 years since the outbreak, in addition to the increase in knowledge of the biology and epidemiology of this disease, a major lesson learned is the value of having a national public health institute that is prepared to control disease outbreaks and designed to coordinate a national response and assist localities in their responses.
• Subjects:
  Coronavirus Disease Threats Humans National Public Health Institutes Perspective Public Health Public Health Administration SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Viruses
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 19(6):861-863.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  19
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:7207cc4ba4b96cf333bc235019bbad9f31ea6e8350422c1a95f7dac498ed0c7b
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/18998/cdc_18998_DS1.pdf
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