Volume 10, Number 2, February 2004

Multiple Contact Dates and SARS Incubation Periods

Martin I. Meltzer*
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Figure 1. Simulation of frequency distribution of incubation period of severe acute respiratory syndrome. Data used for this simulation were obtained from Canada (6), Hong Kong (7), and the United States, for a total sample size of 19. Many of the patients included in the database had multiple possible incubation periods (see Table), resulting in the confidence intervals displayed for each day.

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