- Jeff,
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- The new executive order signed by President Bush on April
4, 2003 (<http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/quarantine.htm>http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/quarantine.htm)
is troubling to me. While I can see the value in using proper quarantine
techniques, SARS does not have definitive tests. The SARS definition
in the executive order is
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- "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), S a disease
associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory
illness, is transmitted from person to person predominantly by the aerosolized
or droplet route, and, if spread in the population, would have severe public
health consequences."
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- Is such a definition specific enough to hold someone
in quarantine? I really hope that we can knock this out before SARS further
mutates and becomes even more costly in terms of lives.
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- Sincerely,
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- Kenneth J Tomaszewski, PhD, MS
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