Management and prevention of SARS in China
- 29 July 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
- Vol. 359 (1447) , 1115-1116
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2004.1491
Abstract
The case fatality was the lowest (3.8%) among 1512 cases with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Guangdong Province, China. Rational use of corticosteroid, noninvasive ventilation and the integration of traditional Chinese medicine and modern medicine may partly have contributed to the lowest fatality figure. There was a close linkage between civet cats and humans in terms of transmission of SARS. Strict control of the wildanimal market may be significant in preventing a new outbreak of SARS this year.Keywords
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