Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
WHO points at "super spreaders" as key to stopping SARS
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, May 4th, 2003
Puzzled by the rapid but seemingly erratic spread of the new disease, a WHO team is visiting hospitals and talking with experts in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, where the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome began.
The four-member team is most interested in "the phenomenon of "super spreaders" - people who seem to spread their disease to a lot of other people," said the WHO team leader, Dr. Robert Breiman.
Figuring out why they are so...
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