SARS Transmission, Risk Factors, and Prevention in Hong Kong

SARS Transmission, Risk Factors, and Prevention in Hong Kong

Joseph T. F. Lau, Hi Yi Tsui, Mason Lau, Xilin Yang

We analyzed information obtained from 1,192 patients with probable severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) reported in Hong Kong. Among them, 26.6% were hospital workers, 16.1% were household members of SARS patients and had probable secondary infections, 14.3% were Amoy Garden residents, 4.9% were inpatients, and 20.1% were contacts of SARS patients who were not family members. The remaining 347 case-patients (29.1%) did not have “known” sources of infection. Excluding those

2004

SARS, source, Transmission, Hong Kong, Chinese

DOI: 10.3201/eid1004.030628

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine

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