SARS : a case study in emerging infections / edited by Angela McLean [and others].

"Originating from contribution to a Discussion Meeting of the Royal Society of London."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-126) and index.

Introduction / A.R. McLean, R.M. May, J. Pattison, and R.A. Weiss -- Environmental and social influences on emerging infectious diseases: past, present, and future / A.J. McMichael -- Evolutionary genetics and the emergence of SARS Coronavirus / Edward C. Holmes and Andrew Rambaut -- Influenza as a model system for studying the cross-species transfer and evolution of the SARS coronavirus / Robin M. Bush -- Management and prevention of SARS in China / Nanshan Zhong and Guangqiao Zeng -- Confronting SARS: a view from Hong Kong / J.S.M. Peiris and Y. Guan -- The aetiology of SARS: Koch's postulates fulfilled / A.D.M.E. Osterhaus, R.A.M. Fouchier, and T. Kuiken -- Laboratory diagnosis of SARS / Bermingham A., Heinen P., Iturriza-Gomara M., Gray J., Appleton H., and Zambon M.C. -- Animal origins of SARS Coronavirus: possible links with the international trade in small carnivores / Diana Bell, Scott Roberton, and Paul R. Hunter -- Epidemiology, transmission dynamics, and control of SARS: the 2002-2003 epidemic / Roy M. Anderson, Christophe Fraser, Azra C. Ghani, Christl A. Donnelly, Steven Riley, Neil M. Ferguson, Gabriel M. Leung, T.H. Lam, and Anthony J. Hedley -- Dynamics of modern epidemics / D. Brockmann, L. Hufnagel, and T. Geisel -- The International response to the outbreak of SARS, 2003 / David L. Heymann -- The Experience of the 2003 SARS outbreak as a traumatic stress among frontline health-care workers in Toronto: lessons learned / Robert Maunder MD, William Lancee PhD, Sean Rourke, Jonathan Hunter MD, David Goldbloom MD, Ken Balderson MD, Patricia Petryshen, Molyn Leszcz, Rosalie Steinberg, Donald Wasylenki, David Koh, and Calvin S.L. Fones -- Informed consent and public health / Onora O'Neill -- What have we learnt from SARS? / Robin A. Weiss and Angela McLean.

The sudden appearance and rapid spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2002 served to alert the world to the fact that emerging infections are a global problem. Living in affluent societies with well developed health care systems does not necessarily protect people from the dangers posed by life-threatening infections. The SARS epidemic tested global preparedness for dealing with a new infectious agent and raised important questions: how did we do, and what did we learn? This book uses the SARS outbreak as a case study to enumerate the generic issues that must be considered when.

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