SARS Transmission, Risk Factors, and Prevention in Hong Kong
SARS, source, Transmission, Hong Kong, Chinese
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
Joseph T. F. Lau, Hi Yi Tsui, Mason Lau, Xilin Yang
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine