SARS

Team outlines necessary next steps

Published in Health and Medicine Week, September 15th, 2003

A joint team of specialists from the Chinese government, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in China to investigate the animal reservoir of the SARS coronavirus, issued a series of recommendations and actions necessary not only to identify the disease's animal reservoir, but to contain any future outbreaks.

"We did not set out this time to find the animal reservoir for SARS, but to methodically piece together the jigsaw puzzle of this disease," said WHO's Dr. Pierre Formenty, a zoonotic disease specialist and joint leader of the mission. "The fight against SARS is not over. Finding its origin will most...

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Source: Health and Medicine Week (2003-09-15)

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