SARS : how a global epidemic was stopped.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Western Pacific
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	[Geneva, Switzerland] : World Health Organization, Western Pacific Region, [2006]
Subjects:	SARS (Disease) > Epidemiology. SARS (Disease) > Prevention. Communicable diseases > Prevention. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome > epidemiology. Communicable Diseases, Emerging > prevention & control. Disease Outbreaks > prevention & control. SARS Virus.

Table of Contents:

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.