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200 10$aSARS$b[electronic resource] $eA case study in emerging infections
210   $aOxford $cOUP Oxford$d2005
215   $a1 online resource (144 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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327   $aContents; Contributors; List of Abbreviation; 1 Introduction; 2 Environmental and social influences on emerging infectious diseases: past, present, and future; 3 Evolutionary genetics and the emergence of SARS Coronavirus; 4 Influenza as a model system for studying the cross-species transfer and evolution of the SARS coronavirus; 5 Management and prevention of SARS in China; 6 Confronting SARS: a view from Hong Kong; 7 The aetiology of SARS: Koch's postulates fulfilled; 8 Laboratory diagnosis of SARS
327   $a9 Animal origins of SARS Coronavirus: possible links with the international trade in small carnivores10 Epidemiology, transmission dynamics, and control of SARS: the 2002-2003 epidemic; 11 Dynamics of modern epidemics; 12 The International response to the outbreak of SARS, 2003; 13 The Experience of the 2003 SARS outbreak as a traumatic stress among frontline health-care workers in Toronto: lessons learned; 14 Informed consent and public health; 15 What have we learnt from SARS?; References; Index
330   $aThe sudden appearance and rapid spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2002 served to alert the world to the fact that emerging infections are a global problem. Living in affluent societies with well developed health care systems does not necessarily protect people from the dangers posed by life-threatening infections. The SARS epidemic tested global preparedness for dealing with a new infectious agent and raised important questions: how did we do, and what did we learn? This book uses the SARS outbreak as a case study to enumerate the generic issues that must be considered when
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