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SARS: health care work can be hazardous to health

SARS: health care work can be hazardous to health Occupational Medicine 2003;53:241–243 DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqg090 EDITORIAL hospital workers at three Greater Toronto Area hospitals SARS: health care work can be have become ill with SARS [9]. hazardous to health Unfortunately, a number of deaths have occurred Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is possibly the among HCWs. An early casualty was Dr Carlo Urbani, first globally significant occupational disease to emerge in the WHO expert working in Hanoi who was among the the twenty-first century. It first surfaced in Guangdong, first to identify the clinical disease, and in whose honour China, in November 2002, made its appearance in Hong it has been proposed that the causative agent bear his Kong in February 2003, and then subsequently spread by name. The index case (and first reported death) of the air travel to Vietnam, Singapore and Canada. SARS has Hong Kong outbreak was an elderly Chinese physician now encircled the globe, affecting 30 countries. As of who had treated SARS patients in Guangdong. Three 13 May, the World Health Organization (WHO) [1] doctors, two nurses and a health care attendant in reported 7548 probable SARS cases and 573 deaths. The Singapore have also succumbed to SARS. case fatality ratio varies from 0 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Occupational Medicine Oxford University Press

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Oxford University Press
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0962-7480
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1471-8405
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10.1093/occmed/kqg090
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Occupational Medicine 2003;53:241–243 DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqg090 EDITORIAL hospital workers at three Greater Toronto Area hospitals SARS: health care work can be have become ill with SARS [9]. hazardous to health Unfortunately, a number of deaths have occurred Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is possibly the among HCWs. An early casualty was Dr Carlo Urbani, first globally significant occupational disease to emerge in the WHO expert working in Hanoi who was among the the twenty-first century. It first surfaced in Guangdong, first to identify the clinical disease, and in whose honour China, in November 2002, made its appearance in Hong it has been proposed that the causative agent bear his Kong in February 2003, and then subsequently spread by name. The index case (and first reported death) of the air travel to Vietnam, Singapore and Canada. SARS has Hong Kong outbreak was an elderly Chinese physician now encircled the globe, affecting 30 countries. As of who had treated SARS patients in Guangdong. Three 13 May, the World Health Organization (WHO) [1] doctors, two nurses and a health care attendant in reported 7548 probable SARS cases and 573 deaths. The Singapore have also succumbed to SARS. case fatality ratio varies from 0

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Published: Jun 1, 2003

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