[PDF][PDF] Consensus document on the epidemiology of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

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Consensus document on the epidemiology of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) Page
1 WHO/CDS/CSRlGARI2003.11 Consensus document on the epidemiology of severe acute
respiratory syndrome (SARS) DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASE SURVEILLANCE
AND RESPONSE Page 2 Acknowledgement This document has been produced by the Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Epidemiology Working Group and the participants at
the Global Meeting on the Epidemiology of SARS, 16-17 May 2003. © World Health …

[PDF][PDF] Outbreak news: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

World Health Organization - Weekly Epidemiological Record …, 2003 - apps.who.int
The most common early symptoms in patients progressing to SARS have included fever
(100%), malaise (100%), chills (97%), headache (84%), myalgia (81%), dizziness (61%),
rigors (55%), cough (39%), sore throat (23%) and runny nose (23%). In many cases, patients
often first presented with severe headache, dizziness and myalgia. Temperature persisted
above baseline during disease progression. In some cases, there was rapid deterioration
with low oxygen saturation and acute respiratory distress requiring ventilatory support …