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. 2013 Jun;19(6):861-3.
doi: 10.3201/eid1906.121426.

Public health lessons from severe acute respiratory syndrome a decade later

Jeffrey P Koplan  1 , David Butler-Jones, Thomas Tsang, Wang Yu
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Public health lessons from severe acute respiratory syndrome a decade later

Jeffrey P Koplan et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2013 Jun.

Abstract

The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in 2002-2003 exacted considerable human and economic costs from countries involved. It also exposed major weaknesses in several of these countries in coping with an outbreak of a newly emerged infectious disease. In the 10 years since the outbreak, in addition to the increase in knowledge of the biology and epidemiology of this disease, a major lesson learned is the value of having a national public health institute that is prepared to control disease outbreaks and designed to coordinate a national response and assist localities in their responses.

Keywords: SARS; coronavirus; disease threats; national public health institutes; public health; severe acute respiratory syndrome; viruses.

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