Public Health Grand Rounds  
Future ProgramsArchived ProgramsHomeAbout UsPeople
Overview
Faculty
Handouts & Resources
CE Credit for Archived Webcast
Webcast
Discussion
Purchase this Program
This program was originally broadcast October 23, 2003.

 

SARS: When a Global Outbreak Hits Home

Lessons Learned

  • SARS is a serious, febrile respiratory illness with potential for rapid global spread

  • Control of SARS requires swift and bold response

  • Clinical features of SARS are non-specific

  • Laboratory tests do not reliably detect SARS early in course of disease

  • Diagnosis should be guided by history of potential exposure to SARS

  • SARS can be controlled by basic control strategies


Public Health Grand Rounds
A collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health
North Carolina Institute for Public Health
Campus Box 8165 | UNC-CH | Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8165
grandrounds@unc.edu
Phone 919.843.9261 | Fax 919.966.5692

A program of the North Carolina Institute for Public Health

 

 

 
9/10/07 4:10 PM