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Volume 10, Number 2, February 2004

Cluster of SARS among Medical Students Exposed to Single Patient, Hong Kong

Tze-wai Wong,* Chin-kei Lee,† Wilson Tam,* Joseph Tak-fai Lau,* Tak-sun Yu,* Siu-fai Lui,‡ Paul K.S. Chan,* Yuguo Li,§Joseph S. Bresee,¶ Joseph J.Y. Sung,* and Umesh D. Parashar,¶ for the Outbreak Study Group*
*The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), People’s Republic of China; †National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; ‡Hospital Authority, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China; §The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China; and ¶Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

 
 
Figure 6.
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Figure 6. Dispersion of hypothetical aerosols that originated from the index patient's bed in the ward. Three levels of normalized concentrations are shown (0.03, 0.015, and 0.005) because the source strength of the virus-laden aerosols is unknown.

 

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