SARS Transmission, Risk Factors, and Prevention in Hong Kong
subject: SARS, source, Transmission, Hong Kong, Chinese
description: We analyzed information obtained from 1,192 patients with probable severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) reported in Hong Kong. Among them, 26.6% were hospital workers, 16.1% were household members of SARS patients and had probable secondary infections, 14.3% were Amoy Garden residents, 4.9% were inpatients, and 20.1% were contacts of SARS patients who were not family members. The remaining 347 case-patients (29.1%) did not have “known” sources of infection. Excluding those
creator: Joseph T. F. Lau, Hi Yi Tsui, Mason Lau, Xilin Yang
source: Emerging Infectious Diseases
publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
date: 2004
language: EN
identifier: DOI: 10.3201/eid1004.030628
coverage: Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine