Severe acute respiratory syndrome screening

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Screening

The World Health Organization requested that all affected areas screen departing passengers for SARS symptoms. In spite of intensive screening, no SARS cases were detected. SARS has an extremely low prevalence, and the positive predictive value of screening is essentially zero. With the rapid international spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) from March through May 2003, Canada introduced various measures to screen airplane passengers at selected airports for symptoms and signs of SARS. ^[1]

References

↑ “Border Screening for SARS – Vol. 11 No. 1 – January 2005 – Emerging Infectious Disease journal – CDC”. Retrieved 2013-03-05.

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Severe acute respiratory syndrome screening

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