Volume 10, Number 2, February 2004

Clinical Description of a Completed Outbreak of SARS in Vietnam, February–May 2003

Hoang Thu Vu,* Katrin C. Leitmeyer,† Dang Ha Le,‡ Megge J. Miller,§ Quang Hien Nguyen,‡ Timothy M. Uyeki,¶ Mary G. Reynolds,¶ Jesper Aagesen,# Karl G. Nicholson,** Quang Huy Vu,* Huy Anh Bach,†† and Aileen J. Plant‡‡
*Hanoi French Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam; †Robert-Koch Institut, Berlin, Germany, and World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; ‡Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam; §Australian National University and Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, Australia; ¶Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; #Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Jonkoping, Sweden; **Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, UK; ††Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi Vietnam; and ‡‡Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia

Figure 1. Symptoms of patients with probable severe acute respiratory syndrome (N = 62), at hospital admission and reported during the course of illness, Vietnam, February–May 2003. Note: All case-patients had fever during their illness because this was part of the case definition.

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