Updated interim U.S. case definition for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Saturday, May 24, 2003, 09:25 EDT (9:25 AM EDT)
  
  CDCHAN-00143-03-05-24-UPD–N
  
  The previous CDC SARS case definition (published May 20, 2003) has been updated as follows:
  
  • In the Epidemiologic Criteria, the last date of illness onset for inclusion as reported case for Toronto, Canada is now "ongoing."
  
  The updated interim U.S. case definition is below. The document is posted on the CDC website at (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/casedefinition.htm). CDC has reissued a travel alert for Toronto, Canada due to evidence of new transmission of SARS (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/casedefinition.htm).
  
  
• Subjects:
  Case Definition Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
• Source:
  HAN ; 143
• Series:
  Health Alert Network
• Document Type:
  HAN Health Update
• Place as Subject:
  Canada
• Pages in Document:
  3 unnumbered pages
• Issue:
  143
• Collection(s):
  Health Alert Network (HAN)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4ca3610ceb0ac0c193d5daea413262c7b7e5810e72f270d39d1084332facc646daa88b4ce078b6d0967427305bbc1e432b3a77b7d5253f4efbd649f3119e1620
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