SARS
High prevalence of PTSD and depression in those quarantined during SARS outbreak
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, September 14th, 2004
"As a transmissible infectious disease, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was successfully contained globally by instituting widespread quarantine measures.
"Although these measures were successful in terminating the outbreak in all areas of the world, the adverse effects of quarantine have not previously been determined in a systematic manner," researchers in Canada report.
"In this hypothesis-generating study supported by a convenience sample drawn in close temporal proximity to the period of...
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