Volume 10, Number 3, March 2004

Patient Data, Early SARS Epidemic, Taiwan

Po-Ren Hsueh,* Pei-Jer Chen,* Cheng-Hsiang Hsiao,* Shiou-Huei Yeh,† Wern-Cherng Cheng,* Jiun-Ling Wang,* Bor-Luen Chiang,* Shan-Chwen Chang,* Feng-Yee Chang,‡ Wing-Wai Wong,§ Chuan-Liang Kao,* Pan-Chyr Yang,* and the SARS Research Group of National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital
*National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; †National Health Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan; ‡Tri-service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; and §Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, Taiwan

Figure 1. Two clusters involving nine patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) who were initially treated at National Taiwan University Hospital. A: One cluster was composed of four patients; two acquired SARS through household contact with an index patient, who had returned from Guangdong Province in China; the fourth was a healthcare worker caring for patient 2. B: The second cluster was composed of four fellow passengers in an airplane (patients 5–8), who sat near a symptomatic patient with SARS (patient X) within the airplane, and one patient (patient 9), who had subsequent close contact with patient 5. Square, male patient; circle, female patient; black, probable case of SARS; blank, healthy person; shading, date of the onset of symptoms; HCW, healthcare worker.

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