Volume 10, Number 2, February 2004

SARS Surveillance during Emergency Public Health Response, United States, March–July 2003

Stephanie J. Schrag,* John T. Brooks,* Chris Van Beneden,* Umesh D. Parashar,* Patricia M. Griffin,* Larry J. Anderson,* William J. Bellini,* Robert F. Benson,* Dean D. Erdman,* Alexander Klimov,* Thomas G. Ksiazek,* Teresa C.T. Peret,* Deborah F. Talkington,* W. Lanier Thacker,* Maria L. Tondella,* Jacquelyn S. Sampson,* Allen W. Hightower,* Dale F. Nordenberg,* Brian D. Plikaytis,* Ali S. Khan,* Nancy E. Rosenstein,* Tracee A. Treadwell,* Cynthia G. Whitney,* Anthony E. Fiore,* Tonji M. Durant,* Joseph F. Perz,* Annemarie Wasley,* Daniel Feikin,* Joy L. Herndon,* William A. Bower,* Barbara W. Kilbourn,* Deborah A. Levy,* Victor G. Coronado,* Joanna Buffington,* Clare A. Dykewicz,* Rima F. Khabbaz,* and Mary E. Chamberland*
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Figure 3. Number of suspect and probable cases reporting travel within the past 10 days to mainland China, Hong Kong, and Toronto, by date of illness onset (N = 307). Lines between solid circles denote periods during which onset of illness within 10 days of travel to the area fulfilled epidemiologic criteria for inclusion as a case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Arrows denote the date on which an area was added to the U.S. surveillance case definition as SARS-affected.

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