SARS
Transmission patterns of SARS in Hong Kong elucidated
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 5th, 2003
Researchers in England presented "an analysis of the first 10 weeks of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in Hong Kong" in the journal Science.
"The epidemic to date has been characterized by two large clusters - initiated by two separate 'super-spread' events (SSEs) - and by ongoing community transmission," according to S. Riley and coauthors at the University of London's Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine.
"By fitting a stochastic model to data on 1512 cases, including these clusters," the scientists found that...
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