Border Screening for SARS

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. The World Health Organization requested that all affected areas screen de...

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Autores principales: St. John, Ronald K., King, Arlene, de Jong, Dick, Bodie-Collins, Margaret, Squires, Susan G., Tam, Theresa WS
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3294328/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15705315
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1101.040835
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description 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. 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. Canadian screening results raise questions about the effectiveness of available screening measures for SARS at international borders.
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spelling pubmed-32943282012-03-08 Border Screening for SARS St. John, Ronald K. King, Arlene de Jong, Dick Bodie-Collins, Margaret Squires, Susan G. Tam, Theresa WS Emerg Infect Dis Research 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. 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. Canadian screening results raise questions about the effectiveness of available screening measures for SARS at international borders. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3294328/ /pubmed/15705315 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1101.040835 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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