Volume 10, Number 2, February 2004

Multiple Contact Dates and SARS Incubation Periods

Martin I. Meltzer*
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Figure 2. Cumulative frequency incubation period of severe acute respiratory syndrome. Data are the mean frequencies of each individual incubation period, as shown in Figure 1. Data used for this simulation were obtained from Canada (6), Hong Kong (7), and the United States, for a sample size 19. Many of the patients included in the database had multiple possible incubation periods (see Table).

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