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Index patient and SARS outbreak in Hong Kong
Raymond S M Wong1, David S Hui
1Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China. raymond.wong@cuhk.edu.hk
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|March 20, 2004
Abstract:
During the global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, treatment was empiric. We report the case history of the index patient in a hospital outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong. The patient recovered after conventional antimicrobial therapy. Further studies are needed to address treatment of SARS, which has high attack and death rates.