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Notice to Readers: Inclusion of Official Counts of SARS-CoV Disease
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Beginning with this issue of MMWR, severe acute respiratory syndrome--associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV)
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(1). The National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) is the official source of SARS-CoV disease case counts.
No SARS-CoV disease cases were reported in the United States from July 1, 2003 (27th week) through December 6,
2003 (49th week). However, as an aid to future data interpretation and comparison, SARS-CoV incidence data were
included in NNDSS for the first half of the year (week ending January 4, 2003, [first week] through week ending June 28, 2003
[26th week]). Cumulative SARS-CoV disease incidence data for
MMWR weeks 1--49 (week ending December 6, 2003)
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