Volume 10, Number 2, February 2004

Lack of SARS Transmission and U.S. SARS Case-Patient

Angela J. Peck,* E. Claire Newbern,*† Daniel R. Feikin,* Elmira T. Isakbaeva,* Benjamin J. Park,* Jason T. Fehr,‡ Ashley C. LaMonte,* Thong P. Le,§ Terry L. Burger,¶ Luther V. Rhodes III,¶# Andre Weltman,** Dean Erdman,* Thomas G. Ksiazek,* Jairam R. Lingappa,* and the SARS Pennsylvania Case Investigation Team
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ‡Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA; §Infectious Diseases Service, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA; ¶Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network, Allentown and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA; #Allentown Infectious Diseases Services, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA; and **Pennsylvania Department of Health, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

Figure 1. Timeline: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) case-patient symptoms and total daily number of contacts from date of symptom onset to date of hospital discharge. Contacts indicated regardless of their subsequent participation in this investigation. Close contact was defined as any contact within 3 feet or contact within 3 to 10 feet for an extended duration (two persons). Repeated contacts by the same person over successive days are shown as independent events. *Healthcare-related contact refers to non–healthcare worker (HCW) contacts in a healthcare setting (persons in waiting rooms of physician office and referral laboratory, curtained area in the emergency department, and two persons who reportedly used personal protective equipment (PPE) and visited the case-patient in his hospital room on 4/15 and 4/16).

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