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The World Health Organization requested that all affected areas screen departing passengers for SARS symptoms. In spite of intensive screening, no SARS cases were detected. SARS has an extremely low prevalence, and the positive predictive value of screening is essentially zero. With the rapid international spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) from March through May 2003, Canada introduced various measures to screen airplane passengers at selected airports for symptoms and signs of SARS. | |||
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Microchapters |
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Differentiating Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome from other Diseases |
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Diagnosis |
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Treatment |
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome screening On the Web |
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American Roentgen Ray Society Images of Severe acute respiratory syndrome screening |
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Directions to Hospitals Treating Severe acute respiratory syndrome |
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Risk calculators and risk factors for Severe acute respiratory syndrome screening |
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Screening
The World Health Organization requested that all affected areas screen departing passengers for SARS symptoms. In spite of intensive screening, no SARS cases were detected. SARS has an extremely low prevalence, and the positive predictive value of screening is essentially zero. With the rapid international spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) from March through May 2003, Canada introduced various measures to screen airplane passengers at selected airports for symptoms and signs of SARS.
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