Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Lessons from Singapore
- Kamaljit Singh
- Li-Yang Hsu
- Jorge S. Villacian
- Abdulrazaq Habib
- Dale Fisher
- Paul A. Tambyah
Publication date
October 2003
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) occurred in Singapore in March 2003. To illustrate the problems in diagnosing and containing SARS in the hospital, we describe a case series and highlight changes in triage and infection control practices that resulted. By implementing these changes, we have stopped the nosocomial transmission of the virus
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