Body Temperature Monitoring and SARS Fever Hotline, Taiwan

Body Temperature Monitoring and SARS Fever Hotline, Taiwan

S. Cornelia Kaydos-Daniels, Babatunde Olowokure, Hong-Jen Chang, Rachel S. Barwick, Jou-Fang Deng, Ming-Liang Lee, Steve Hsu-Sung Kuo, Ih-Jen Su, Kow-Tong Chen, Susan A. Maloney

In Taiwan, a temperature-monitoring campaign and hotline for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) fever were implemented in June 2003. Among 1,966 calls, fever was recorded in 19% (n = 378); 18 persons at high risk for SARS were identified. In a cross-sectional telephone survey, 95% (n = 1,060) of households knew about the campaign and 7 households reported fever.

2004

hotlines, telephone hot lines, severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, Taiwan, Asia

DOI: 10.3201/eid1002.030748

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine

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