SARS Prevention
Masks/handwashing effective but gowns/gloves not effective in SARS control
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, December 26th, 2004
"Between 1 and 22 March 2003, a nosocomial outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) occurred at the Communicable Disease Center in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, the national treatment and isolation facility for patients with SARS.
"A case-control study with 36 cases and 50 controls was conducted of factors associated with the transmission of SARS within the hospital," scientists writing in the journal Epidemiology and Infection report.
"In univariate analysis," said M.D. Teleman and coworkers,...
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