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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

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By Martin F. McKneally, MD, PhD

Managing SARS in Toronto: Lessons in Biosecurity

Harvard Health Policy Course, May 2003
by Martin F. McKneally, MD, PhD

SARS! - The name leaps out at us as from a horror film. The plague doctor, with his frightening mask stuffed with gauze, herbs, and camphor during the pneumonic plagues of earlier centuries, symbolizes the terror of victims and caregivers. As the story of SARS unfolded, they were often the same, as caregivers were both the victims and the vectors of disease in the outbreak in Toronto. More »

SARS articles from The New England Journal of Medicine

May 15, 2003, Volume 348, Number 20

A Novel Coronavirus Associated with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
T. G. Ksiazek and Others

Identification of a Novel Coronavirus in Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
C. Drosten and Others

A Cluster of Cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Hong Kong
K. W. Tsang and Others

A Major Outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Hong Kong
N. Lee and Others

Identification of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Canada
S. M. Poutanen and Others

Managing SARS amidst Uncertainty
R. P. Wenzel and M. B. Edmond

SARS-Associated Coronavirus
K. V. Holmes

SARS and Carlo Urbani
B. Reilley, M. Van Herp, D. Sermand, and N. Dentico

Publication Date: 23-May-2003
Last Modified: 30-Jun-2008

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