Journal article
Managing SARS amidst Uncertainty
The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol.348(20), pp.1947-1948
05/15/2003
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp030072
PMID: 12748313
Abstract
In November 2002, a businessman from the city of Foshan in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong may have been the first victim of a mysterious illness called severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Guangdong Province, an agricultural area with a population of 75 million, has thousands of farms with large and small animals, a subtropical climate, and rainfall of about 2 m per year. The first patient and many others received no international attention until February 2003, when a physician from Guangdong Province became ill while staying on the ninth floor of a hotel in Hong Kong. Twelve guests became . . .
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Managing SARS amidst Uncertainty
- Creators
- Richard P WenzelMichael B Edmond
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol.348(20), pp.1947-1948
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- DOI
- 10.1056/NEJMp030072
- PMID
- 12748313
- ISSN
- 0028-4793
- eISSN
- 1533-4406
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/15/2003
- Academic Unit
- Infectious Diseases; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9983905531002771
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