Coordinated Response to SARS, Vancouver, Canada

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2006 Feb 24

PMID 16494736

Citations 13

Authors

Danuta M Skowronski

Martin Petric

Patricia Daly

Robert A Parker

Elizabeth Bryce

Patrick W Doyle

Michael A Noble

Diane L Roscoe

Joan Tomblin

Tung C Yang

Mel Krajden

David M Patrick

Babak Pourbohloul

Swee Han Goh

William R Bowie

Tim F Booth

S Aleina Tweed

Thomas L Perry

Allison McGeer

Robert C Brunham

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Abstract

Two Canadian urban areas received travelers with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) before the World Health Organization issued its alert. By July 2003, Vancouver had identified 5 cases (4 imported); Toronto reported 247 cases (3 imported) and 43 deaths. Baseline preparedness for pandemic threats may account for the absence of sustained transmission and fewer cases of SARS in Vancouver.

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