THE GROWTH OF SARS
Abstract
The World Health Organization sponsored a global conference on SARS June 17-18, 2003 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This was an attempt to find answers to the following questions: Can SARS be eradicated? Are current control measures effective? Are current alert and response systems robust enough? It is obvious that the final solution is still unclear but some lessons have been learned from the first SARS epidemic which was caused by a new coronavirus. Lessons learned include the facts that existing measures were adequate if used rigorously and the final solution will be a vaccine. It is not clear if new outbreaks of SARS will occur.
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