In:
Bulletin de l'Académie Vétérinaire de France, PERSEE Program, Vol. 156, No. 3 ( 2003), p. 37-47
Abstract:
The author was part of the French team sent to Hanoi to support the medical staff at the French Hospital, and study the epidemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). He describes the chronology of events, and the local epidemiological aspects (comparing them to those of the other SARS foci, i. e. Hong Kong, China, Singapore, and Toronto), and presents a modelling of the epidemic based on theoretical scenarios of prevention measures. The author describes how the researchers came to eliminate some etiologic hypotheses and establish the role of a new coronavirus. After reviewing the current data on the SARS coronavirus, he describes the diagnostic methods, antibody-based tests, and virus resistance, and lists the numerous questions still to be answered. Although the latest information on the epidemic offers some degree of optimism in the short term, certain characteristics of the epidemic, particularly the probable existence of healthy carriers over a long period and animal reservoirs of the virus, raise the threat of a return of SARS in the winter.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0001-4192
Language:
French
Publisher:
PERSEE Program
Publication Date:
2003
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2840771-4
SSG:
22
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