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Border Screening for SARS

Overview With the rapid international spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) from March through May 2003, Canada introduced various measures to screen airplane passengers at selected airports for symptoms and signs of SARS. The World Health Organization requested that all affected areas screen departing passengers for SARS symptoms. In spite of intensive screening, no SARS cases were detected. SARS has an extremely low prevalence, and the positive predictive value of screening is essentially zero. This article points out that Canadian screening results raise questions about the effectiveness of available screening measures for SARS at international borders.

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Publisher	United States Department of Health and Human Services	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	January 2005	Downloads	20
Format	White Papers
Topics	Border Security

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