[Timesink]

The CDC now has a SARS web site that is updated as events warrant. The official description:

Information on outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), reported in several countries. Provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.

The page's current contents:

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

Find Your City, County, or State Health Officers
Directories, contacts, hotlines, search features. On StatePublicHealth.org (ASTHO) site.

• CDC Press Release: CDC issues health alert about atypical pneumonia (March 15, 2003)
  In response to reports of increasing numbers of cases of an atypical pneumonia that WHO has called severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), CDC has announced several steps to alert U.S. health authorities at local & state levels...
  
  
• CDC Media Advisory: CDC's Response to Atypical Pneumonia in Southeast Asia and Canada (March 15, 2003)
  Transcript from telebriefing
  
  
• CDC Interim Information and Recommendations for Health Care Providers (March 15, 2003)
  Information for clinicians on case finding, evaluation, infection control, treatment, & reporting
  
  
• CDC Health Alert Notice (March 15, 2003)
  For international travelers arriving in or returning to the USA from Hong Kong & Guandong Province in the People's Republic of China & from Hanoi, Vietnam.
  
  
• World Health Organization issues emergency travel advisory (March 15, 2003)
  Due to the spread of SARS to several countries in a short period of time, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued emergency guidance for travellers & airlines...
  
  
• CDC Travelers' Health Notice: Acute respiratory syndrome, Hong Kong SAR, Viet Nam, China (March 13, 2003)
  Information on reports of outbreaks of a severe form of pneumonia in Hong Kong, Vietnam, & Guangdong, a province in southern China.
  
  
• WHO issues global alert about cases of atypical pneumonia (March 12, 2003)
  Background information on the outbreaks, which were first reported in Vietnam & Hong Kong
  
  
• Government of Ontario press release: Ontario issues alert about four cases of atypical pneumonia (March 14, 2003)
  Ontario Ministry of Health investigation of cases in Toronto
  
  

Page last modified March 16, 2003

[leadpenny]

Bump

[blondee123]

Original post with replies here original post

[Mother Abigail]

You come see me child...

[TomB]

Here is the (long awaited) update from the CDC.

[capt. norm]

How redundant is the term "severe acute"?

We'll have to run that by the Department of Redundancy Department.

[mewzilla]

Do they know if this is bacterial or viral yet?

[Timesink]

March 16 Update of CDC SARS website.

[Timesink]

Update: Experts Suspect Virus Is Cause of Asian Mystery Illness