|
Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) |
- SARS
Surveillance (Jan
8, 2004)
Supplement B of Public Health Guidance
for Community-Level Preparedness and Response to SARS
- In
the Absence of SARS-CoV Transmission Worldwide: Guidance
for Surveillance, Clinical and Laboratory Evaluation, and Reporting Version 2 (Jan
21, 2004)
- Surveillance
Case Definition for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS) (Dec
12, 2003)
MMWR 52(49);1202-1206
- SARS Case Reporting Form (Jan
8, 2004)
Appendix B2, Supplement B of Public Health
Guidance for Community-Level Preparedness and Response to SARS
- SARS
Case Count
During November 2002-July 2003, a total of 8,098 probable SARS cases were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) from 29 countries. In the United States, only 8 cases had laboratory evidence of infection with SARS-CoV. Since July 2003, when SARS-CoV transmission was declared contained, active global surveillance for SARS-CoV disease has detected no person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV. CDC has therefore archived the case report summaries for the 2003 outbreak.
During the 2003 epidemic, CDC and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
(CSTE) developed surveillance criteria to identify persons with SARS in the United
States. The surveillance case definition changed throughout the epidemic, to
reflect increased understanding of SARS-CoV disease. The revised CSTE case definition
issued on November 3, 2003, and subsequently adopted by CDC (refer to Revised
U.S. Surveillance Case Definition for SARS and Update on SARS Cases --- United
States and Worldwide, December 2003)
will be the basis for ongoing SARS surveillance.
Current Case Counts
(2004): Worldwide (WHO)
Archived Case Counts (2003): Worldwide (WHO) | U.S. (CDC)
|
|
|