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Meeting report
The World Health Organization held an international scientific meeting in Geneva on June 17-18, 2003. This meeting reviewed the epidemiological, clinical management and laboratory findings on SARS and discussed global control strategies. Key participants in the response to the current outbreaks and other public health authorities were invited to the meeting. A report of the meeting has been posted on the WHO SARS Web site.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - SARS
The Food and Drug Administration
SARS and the Safety of Blood Transfusions
Foreign language fact sheets
From the Seattle and King County Public Health Department
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
International Web sites
The World Health Organization - SARS
Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Organ Imaging, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Thailand Ministry of Public Health
France Ministry of Health Web site (in French)
Switzerland Federal Office of Public Health (in French)
National Disease Surveillance Center, Republic of Ireland
Public Health Laboratory Service, United Kingdom
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO)
Journal resources (some may require you to register, usually for free)
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From the Journal of the American Medical Association
Clinical Features and Short-term Outcomes of 144 Patients With SARS in the Greater Toronto Area (May 6, 2003)
C.M. Booth and Others
Abstract | PDF | Full text | Press release
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Providing Care in the Face of Uncertainty (May 6, 2003)
H. Masur and Others
Full text | PDF
From the New England Journal of Medicine
A Cluster of Cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Hong Kong (March 31, 2003)
K.W. Tsang and Others
Abstract | PDF
Identification of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Canada (March 31, 2003)
S.M. Poutanen and Others
Abstract | PDF
Editorial: Case Clusters of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (March 31, 2003)
J.M. Drazen
Abstract | PDF
Editorial: Faster... but Fast Enough? Responding to the Epidemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (April 2, 2003)
J.L. Gerberding
Abstract | PDF
A Major Outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Hong Kong (April 7, 2003)
N. Lee and Others
Abstract | PDF
A Novel Coronavirus Associated with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (April 10, 2003)
T.G. Ksiazek and Others
Abstract | PDF
Identification of a Novel Coronavirus in Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (April 10, 2003)
C. Drosten and Others
Abstract | PDF
From The Lancet
Coronavirus as a possible cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome (April 5, 2003)
J S M Peiris and Others
Full text
Novel coronavirus and severe acute respiratory syndrome (April 5, 2003)
A.R. Falsey and Others
Full text
Guideline on management of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) (April 5, 2003)
W. Ho
Full text
Clinical progression and viral load in a community outbreak of coronavirus-associated SARS pneumonia: a prospective study (May 9, 2003)
J.S.M. Peiris and Others
Full text
Epidemiological determinants of spread of causal agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong (May 9, 2003)
C.A. Donnelly and Others
Full text
Clinical presentations and outcome of severe acute respiratory syndrome in children (May 9, 2003)
K.L.E. Hon and Others
Full text
Development of standard treatment protocol for SARS
L. K-Y So and Others
Full text | PDF
SARS, lay epidemiology, and fear
O. Razum and Others
Full text
SARS exposed, pandemic influenza lurks
K.F. Shortridge
Full text | PDF
From Science
Characterization of a Novel Coronavirus Associated with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
P.A. Rota and Others
Abstract | Full text PDF
The Genome Sequence of the SARS-Associated Coronavirus
M.A. Marra and Others
Abstract | Full text PDF
Lessons from SARS
B.R. Bloom
Full text PDF
The morbidity and mortality weekly report M Guide on SARS
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, follow the outbreak
From the British Medical Journal
SARS virus identified, but the disease is still spreading
J. Parry
Full text
Canada reports more than 300 suspected cases of SARS
D. Spurgeon
Full text
Clinical Early Detecting SARS by means of Biophysical Semeiotics
S. Stagnaro
Full text
Time to show unity against SARS
D. Chao
Full text
How popular perceptions of risk from SARS are fermenting discrimination
J. Schram
Full text
Two strains of the SARS virus sequenced
O. Dyer
Full text | PDF
WHO warns that death rate from SARS could reach 10 percent
J. Parry
Full text | PDF
From Medscape Infectious Diseases
Archived Webcast resources
Oct. 23rd CDC Webcast: "SARS - When a Global Outbreak Hits Home"
Sept. 23 & 30 Webcast: Preparing for the Return of SARS: Are we ready?
May 20 Webcast: Public Health Community Preparedness for SARS
May 8 Webcast: Increasing Clinician Preparedness for SARS
CDC May 8th, 2003 satellite and web broadcast on SARS
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