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1028611
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b782981
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SARS : : how a global epidemic was stopped.
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| Publication Statement
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[Geneva, Switzerland] :: World Health Organization, Western Pacific Region,, ©2006.
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x, 307 pages :: illustrations, portraits (some color) ;; 26 cm
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9290612134
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: 9789290612131
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Overview / Dr. Shigeru Omi -- Part I: Overall perspectives -- SARS chronology / Floyd Whaley, Osman David Mansoor -- Coordinating the global response / David L. Haymann, Mary Kay Kindhauser, Guenael Rodier -- Response of the Western Pacific Regional Office / Robert Condon, Mahomed Patel -- Surveillance / Rosanne Muller -- Part II: Country and area perspectives -- China: from denial to mass mobilization / Mangai Balasegaram, Alan Schnur -- Hong Kong (China): hospitals under siege / Mary Ann Benitez -- Viet Nam: tough decisions pay off / Pascale Brudon, Maria Cheng -- Singapore: waves of transmission / Stephen Lambert -- Taiwan, China: from control to outbreak / Susan Maloney, Babatunde Olowokure, Cathy Roth -- The Philippines: how contact tracing worked / Jean-Marc Olive -- Mongolia: impact of a small outbreak / Wiwat Rojanapithayakorn -- Canada: how a hospital coped / Carolyn Abraham -- Part III: Outbreaks -- The first super-spreading event / Mangai Balasegaram -- Solving the Metropole Hotel mystery / Floyd Whaley -- Flight CA112: facing the spectre of in-flight transmission / Floyd Whaley -- Lockdown at Amoy Gardens / Floyd Whaley -- Panic at Pasir Panjang market / Floyd Whaley -- The Hanoi-French Hospital: Dr. Urbani's alert / Floyd Whaley -- Part IV: The science of SARS -- Clinical features / Joseph Jao-Yiu Sung -- Epidemiology / Angela Merianos, Aileen Plant -- Animal cornomaviruses / Linda Saif -- The SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) / Malik Peiris, Leo Poon, John S. Mackenzie -- Laboratory diagnostics / Christian Drosten, Katrin Leitmeyer -- The animal connection / Andrea Ellis, Yi Guan, Elizabeth Miranda -- SARS vaccine development / Marie-Paule Kieny, Saladin Osmanov -- Biocontaminant and biosafety issues / John S. Mackenzie, Babatunde Olowokure -- Part V: The way forward -- What did we learn from SARS? / Brian Doberstyn -- Appendices.
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SARS caused more fear and social disruption than any other diseases of our time. While it killed a relatively small number of people, it nevertheless buckled economies, crippled international trade and travel, and emptied the streets of some of the world's most prosperous cities. Where did this frightening disease come from? How did it spread? And will the world be any better prepared if it returns? For the first time, these and other questions are answered in this remarkable inside account of what really took place in those fateful months of 2003 when severe acute respiratory syndrome threatened to engulf the world. Written largely by the public health experts and scientists who were at the centre of the battle, this book tracks the ways in which the virus spread, how close it came to bringing public health systems to their knees and how, in the end, an unprecedented global coalition stopped it in its tracks. For health specialists, this book will serve as an indispensable guide to the science of SARS, providing a detailed account of the clinical symptoms associated with the disease, the unravelling of the genetic secrets of the SARS coronavirus and the development of vaccines and diagnostics. This book is published by the World Health Organization s Regional Office for the Western Pacific, where 95% of the more than 8,000 global cases took place and where 12 countries or areas were hit, some with devastating force.
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WHO.
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Communicable diseases-- Prevention.
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SARS (Disease)-- Epidemiology.
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SARS (Disease)-- Prevention.
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Brotes de enfermedades-- Prevención y control.
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Communicable diseases-- Prevention.
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Enfermedades trasmisibles emergentes-- Prevención y control.
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SARS (Disease)-- Prevention.
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Síndrome respiratorio agudo severo-- Epidemiología.
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Virus del SARS.
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-- epidemiology.
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DISEASE PREVENTION.
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EPIDEMICS.
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SARS.
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Communicable Diseases, Emerging-- prevention control.
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Disease Outbreaks-- prevention control.
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SARS Virus.
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| Dewey Classification
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616.24
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| LC Classification
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RA644.S17S274 2006
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2006 G-344
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WC 505S2476 2006
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World Health Organization., Regional Office for the Western Pacific.
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