Infectious Disease

Outbreak in British Columbia not linked to SARS

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, September 16th, 2003

Following extensive investigations, the World Health Organization (WHO) has dispelled fears that an outbreak of respiratory illness in an aged care facility in Canada might be linked to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

"Clinically, the disease itself was strikingly different from the SARS outbreak in the spring," WHO said in a press release. "The features of the current outbreak included a low case fatality, runny nose, lack of fever in most patients, and no SARS-like changes in the lung seen on X-ray."

On August 14, Canadian public health officials reported to WHO that an unidentified respiratory disease in a Surrey, British Columbia...

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