Body Temperature Monitoring and SARS Fever Hotline, Taiwan
hotlines, telephone hot lines, severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, Taiwan, Asia
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.
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
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine