Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

• Latest News
• Scientists Advance the Fight Against SARS (09/21/2004, Reuters Health)
• Scientists Find Compounds That Block SARS (09/17/2004, United Press International)

• From the National Institutes of Health
• NIAID Research on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

• Overviews
• Basic Information about SARS (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
  Also available in: Spanish

• Diagnosis/Symptoms
• New Rapid Test Developed for SARS (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS): Laboratory Diagnostic Tests (World Health Organization)

• Treatment
• Role of the Anesthesiologists in Treating SARS Symptoms (American Society of Anesthesiologists)

• Clinical Trials
• ClinicalTrials.gov: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (National Institutes of Health)

• Specific Conditions
• Advice on SARS and Potential for Food Transmission (Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition)
• Current SARS Situation (National Center for Infectious Diseases)
• Fact Sheet for SARS Patients and Their Close Contacts (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
  Also available in: Spanish
• FDA Issues Guidance on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome to Further Safeguard the Blood Supply (Food and Drug Administration)
• Flu and SARS: Questions and Answers (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Guidance about Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) for Americans Living Abroad (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• MRSA Infection and SARS: What's the Difference? (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
• Questions and Answers on Embargo of Civets (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• SARS Travel Recommendations Summary Table (World Health Organization)
• Summary of SARS and Air Travel (World Health Organization)

• Prevention/Screening
• Guidance for Persons Who May Have Been Exposed to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Isolation and Quarantine (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Rx for Products That Claim to Prevent SARS? A Healthy Dose of Skepticism (Federal Trade Commission)

• Related Issues
• SARS Infection Control in Healthcare, Home, and Community Settings (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - Links to PDF File
• SARS Questions and Answers: Travel and Quarantine (National Center for Infectious Diseases)

• Research
• Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Hong Kong (American College of Physicians)
• Do Some Patients with SARS Have Mild Disease? (American College of Physicians)
• Intranasal SARS Vaccine Protects Monkeys from Infection (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Mouse Antibodies Thwart SARS Virus (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• New Method Enables Researchers to Make Human SARS Antibodies Quickly (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Predicting Which Patients Have Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (American College of Physicians)
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Health Care Workers (American College of Physicians)

• Genetics
• CDC Lab Sequences Genome of New Coronavirus (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

• Directories
• Quarantine Stations (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

• Organizations
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Also available in: Spanish
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
• World Health Organization

• Law and Policy
• Executive Order 13295: Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Questions and Answers on Legal Authorities for Isolation and Quarantine (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

• Statistics
• Cumulative Number of Reported Probable Cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) (World Health Organization)

• Other Languages
• Basic Information about SARS (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - Links to PDF File - Korean language materials
• Basic Information about SARS (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - Links to PDF File - Japanese language materials
• Basic Information about SARS (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - Links to PDF File - simplified Chinese language material
• Basic Information about SARS (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - Links to PDF File - Vietnamese language materials
• Basic Information about SARS (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - Links to PDF File - traditional Chinese language material