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. 2004 Feb;10(2):167-70.
doi: 10.3201/eid1002.031032.

Wrestling SARS from uncertainty

Jairam R Lingappa  1 , L Clifford McDonald, Patricia Simone, Umesh D Parashar
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Wrestling SARS from uncertainty

Jairam R Lingappa et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2004 Feb.
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Dr. Jairam R. Lingappa worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 1998 through 2003, most recently as the medical epidemiologist for respiratory viral infections with the Respiratory and Enteric Virus Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases. In that capacity, he had the responsibility for developing epidemiologic evaluation of respiratory viral infections in outbreak settings and research studies. During the 2002–2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Dr. Lingappa led the Special Investigations Team coordinating CDC’s SARS transmission and natural history investigations. His research interests include immunologic and genomic aspects of host response to infectious pathogens and vaccines, as well as pathogen detection and discovery technologies and emerging infectious diseases. In January 2004, Dr. Lingappa joined the faculty of the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington.
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Dr. L. Clifford McDonald is a medical epidemiologist in the Epidemiology and Laboratory Branch, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, CDC, which has primary responsibility for public health response activities in healthcare settings. Dr. McDonald has training in adult infectious diseases, clinical microbiology, and epidemiology and is an experienced hospital epidemiologist. During the past outbreak, he was a member of the Clinical and Infection Control Team, working in the Emergency Operations Center activated for SARS; he also led the CDC SARS Investigation Team to Toronto during both phases of the outbreak there. His interests include antimicrobial resistance and outbreak investigations in hospitals, and he has performed both domestic and international research in these areas.
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Dr. Patricia Simone is the associate director for science in the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC. She is responsible for the scientific activities of that division, whose missions are to decrease illness and death from infectious diseases among mobile populations (immigrants, refugees, migrant workers, and international travelers) crossing international borders destined for the United States and to decrease the risk for importation and spread of infectious diseases via humans, animals, and cargo. She is an expert on tuberculosis and serves as the SARS team leader for travel-related issues.
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Dr. Parashar is the lead medical epidemiologist for the CDC's SARS Task Force, which has overall responsibility to develop, oversee, coordinate, and implement CDC's SARS program activities. Dr. Parashar was a member of the World Health Organization team that investigated the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong and later led the surveillance team at CDC during the response to the SARS outbreak in the United States. His other research interests include the epidemiology of viral gastroenteritis and methods for its prevention and control, including vaccination strategies.
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Cumulative cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome and proportion among healthcare workers by geographic region, November 1, 2002–July 31, 2003.
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