Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jan 2006)

Coordinated Response to SARS, Vancouver, Canada

  • Danuta M. Skowronski,
  • Martin Petric,
  • Patricia Daly,
  • Robert A. Parker,
  • Elizabeth Bryce,
  • Patrick W. Doyle,
  • Michael A. Noble,
  • Diane L. Roscoe,
  • Joan Tomblin,
  • Tung C. Yang,
  • Mel Krajden,
  • David M. Patrick,
  • Babak Pourbohloul,
  • Swee Han Goh,
  • William R. Bowie,
  • Tim F. Booth,
  • S. Aleina Tweed,
  • Thomas L. Perry,
  • Allison McGeer,
  • Robert C. Brunham

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1201.050327
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 155 – 158

Abstract

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Two Canadian urban areas received travelers with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) before the World Health Organization issued its alert. By July 2003, Vancouver had identified 5 cases (4 imported); Toronto reported 247 cases (3 imported) and 43 deaths. Baseline preparedness for pandemic threats may account for the absence of sustained transmission and fewer cases of SARS in Vancouver.

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