SARS

WHO sends team to China to probe SARS case

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, February 1st, 2004

The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has dispatched a team of experts to Guangzhou, China, to investigate a case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

The six-person group will join with counterparts from China's Ministry of Health to look into the recent occurrence of a confirmed case of SARS in the city.

The agency said the joint mission's work will center around the potential human, animal and environmental sources of the SARS infection.

The WHO team is headed by Dr. Robert Breiman, an epidemiologist from the United States who specializes in emerging infectious diseases.

The agency...

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