Optimizing severe acute respiratory syndrome response strategies: lessons learned from quarantine.

Tsung Hsi Wang; Kuo Chen Wei; Chao Agnes Hsiung; Susan A. Maloney; Rachel Barwick Eidex; Drew L. Posey; Wei Hui Chou; Wen Yi Shih; Hsu Sung Kuo

doi:10.2105/AJPH.2005.082115

Optimizing severe acute respiratory syndrome response strategies: lessons learned from quarantine.

Tsung Hsi Wang^*, Kuo Chen Wei, Chao Agnes Hsiung, Susan A. Maloney, Rachel Barwick Eidex, Drew L. Posey, Wei Hui Chou, Wen Yi Shih, Hsu Sung Kuo

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Taiwan Centers for Disease Control

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Abstract

Taiwan used quarantine as 1 of numerous interventions implemented to control the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in 2003. From March 18 to July 31, 2003, 147,526 persons were placed under quarantine. Quarantining only persons with known exposure to people infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome could have reduced the number of persons quarantined by approximately 64%. Focusing quarantine efforts on persons with known or suspected exposure can greatly decrease the number of persons placed under quarantine, without substantially compromising its yield and effectiveness.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	S98-100
Journal	American Journal of Public Health
Volume	97 Suppl 1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2005.082115
State	Published - 04 2007
Externally published	Yes

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