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Quarantine for SARS, Taiwan.

Ying-Hen Hsieh1, Chwan-Chuan King, Cathy W S Chen

  • 1Department of Applied Mathematics, National Chung Hsing University, 250 Kuo-Kuang Rd., Taichung, Taiwan 402. hsieh@amath.nchu.edu.tw

Emerging Infectious Diseases
|March 9, 2005
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Quarantine during the 2003 SARS outbreak in Taiwan helped shorten the time from symptom onset to diagnosis for confirmed cases. This swift identification facilitated faster isolation, indirectly reducing SARS-CoV infections.

Area of Science:

  • Epidemiology
  • Public Health

Background:

  • The 2003 SARS outbreak in Taiwan involved extensive quarantine measures for over 150,000 individuals.
  • A subset of quarantined individuals (24) were later confirmed to have SARS-CoV infection, prompting an investigation into quarantine effectiveness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the effectiveness of quarantine in managing the SARS outbreak in Taiwan.
  • To determine if quarantine influenced the time to diagnosis for SARS-CoV infected individuals.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of quarantine data from the 2003 SARS outbreak in Taiwan.
  • Comparison of onset-to-diagnosis times between previously quarantined and non-quarantined confirmed SARS cases.

Main Results:

  • Previously quarantined confirmed SARS cases exhibited a significantly shorter onset-to-diagnosis time compared to non-quarantined cases.

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  • Implementation of full-scale quarantine measures on April 28 correlated with a significant improvement in onset-to-diagnosis time for all SARS patients.

    • Conclusions:

    • Quarantine in Taiwan served to screen potentially infected individuals, enabling quicker diagnosis and hospitalization post-symptom onset.
    • Quarantine measures indirectly contributed to reducing SARS transmission by facilitating early isolation.
    • The study highlights the temporal impact of quarantine and other interventions on SARS detection and isolation strategies.