Wresting SARS from uncertainty.(Commentary)

From: Emerging Infectious Diseases | Date: February 1, 2004| Author: Lingappa, Jairam R.; McDonald, L. Clifford; Parashar, Umesh D.; Simone, Patricia | Copyright information

In early March 2003, Carlo Urbani, a World Health Organization (WHO) epidemiologist stationed in Vietnam, alerted the global health community to the high transmissibility and lethality associated with an apparently new respiratory disease. This disease, now called severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), is believed to have emerged in China in November 2002 and progressed to a global health threat by the spring of 2003 (1-3). On March 15, 2003, with clusters of SARS cases being re...

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