Preliminary clinical description of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
• Description:
  Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a condition of unknown etiology that has been described in patients in Asia, North America, and Europe. This report summarizes the clinical description of patients with SARS based on information collected since mid-February 2003 by the World Health Organization (WHO), Health Canada, and CDC in collaboration with health authorities and clinicians in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Bangkok, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Slovenia, Canada, and the United States. This information is preliminary and limited by the broad and necessarily nonspecific case definition.
  
  Also published: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2003 Mar 28;52(12):255-6.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases, Emerging Disease Outbreaks Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome/diagnosis
• Source:
  HAN ; 125
• Series:
  Health Alert Network
• Document Type:
  HAN Health Update
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Issue:
  125
• Collection(s):
  Health Alert Network (HAN)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d382870911c55f791bf5c622e6256d1d1ed3d2c273007672b24286e3b5b17ce0eb2c8dc82cb9ae861893a5a88f1ed1d3fb41d1d74dea6a3daf2e1ecae02a5860
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/25037/cdc_25037_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 1.46 MB ]