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SARS exposure led to infection among 4.7% of ED workers in Taiwan study

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 3rd, 2004

SARS exposure led to infection among 4.7% of emergency department workers in a Taiwan study.

According to published research from Taiwan, "Of 193 emergency department workers exposed to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), 9 (4.7%) were infected.

Pneumonia developed in six workers, and assays showed anti-SARS immunoglobulin (Ig)M and IgG."

"The other three workers were IgM-positive and had lower IgG titers; in two, mild illness developed, and one remained asymptomatic," wrote W.T. Chang and colleagues, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Chang and colleagues...

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