Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

• The SARS Commission Report, Volumes 1-5, The Honourable Mr. Justice Archie Campbell, December 2006. This report chronicles the investigation of how SARS came to Ontario, how the virus spread, and how it was dealt with.
  http://www.sarscommission.ca/report/index.html
  (Posted: 04/17/2007)
  
  
• Edward P. Richards and Katarine C. Rathburn, "Making State Public Health Laws Work for SARS Outbreaks", Emerg Infect Dis [serial online] (February 2004).
  (Web link)
   
• Federal.  "Guidance for Community-Level Preparedness and Response to SARS,"
  an updated SARs comprehensive guidance document that incorporates comments received from public health partners, healthcare providers, and others, to increase the understanding of SARS-CoV transmission dynamics and the availability of improved prevention tools. Prepared by CDC, dated January 8, 2004.
  (Web link)
  (Posted: 03/01/2004 3:00 PM)
   
• Federal. James J. Misrahi, et al., "HHS/CDC Legal Response to SARS Outbreak", Emergency Infectious Diseases [serial online] February (2004).
  (Web link)
   
• Federal.  CDC Press Release on Banning Importation of Civets.  Issued by CDC on January 13, 2004.  Announces the action by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to ban the import civets as a measure against SARS.
  (Web link)
  (Posted: 01/14/2004 3:00 PM)
   
• Federal. Notice of Embargo of Civets, January 13, 2004.  This order bans the importation of all civets immediately and until further notice, as a measure against SARS.
  (Web link)
  (Posted: 01/14/2004 3:00 PM)
   
• Federal.   CDC Question and Answer Sheet on the January 13, 2004 order to ban the importation of civets.
  (Web link)
  (Posted: 01/14/2004 3:00 PM)
   
• Federal.  "Public Health Community Preparedness for SARS: Legal Aspects" A PowerPoint presentation by Gene W. Matthews, former Legal Advisor to CDC. Describes the basic concepts of legal preparedness for SARS. Presented at a broadcast of the CDC Public Health Training Network on September 23, 2003
  (PowerPoint file)
   
• Federal.  "Fact Sheet: Practical Steps for SARS Legal Preparedness" A list of steps for public health lawyers in case SARS affects their jurisdictions Written by CDC. Dated September 26, 2003
  (Web link)
  (posted 09/26/03)
   
• New Jersey.   New Jersey SARS Preparedness Plan:
  (PDF file)
  (posted 01/20/04 1:00 PM)
  

   

• A Checklist for SARS Planning, developed by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and the National Association of County & City Health Official in collaboration with CDC.  The checklist provides information applicable to SARS and other public health emergencies and is intended for use by health officials at all levels.
  (PDF file)
  (Posted 05/14/2004 10:00 AM)
   
•  "Quarantine and Isolation: Lessons Learned from SARS"
  On December 1, 2003, the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville released a report titled, "Quarantine and Isolation: Lessons Learned from SARS."  The lead author was Prof. Mark A. Rothstein, director of the Institute.   The report reviews lessons learned from the use of quarantine and isolation in Canada, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam during the recent SARS outbreak.  The report was funded through a cooperative agreement with CDC; however, it is the independent work of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the views of CDC or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  It is available online at (Web link)
  (Posted: 12/02/2003 10:00 AM)
   
• The Public/Private Response to Sudden Disease Outbreak, Final Report, June 30,2005  prepared by Gene Matthews, JD, Institute of Public Health Law, for the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, sponsored by the CDC Foundation
  (PDF file)
  (Posted 04/3/2006 10:00 AM)