Volume 10, Number 2—February 2004
THEME ISSUE
2004 SARS Edition

SARS Transmission

Cluster of SARS among Medical Students Exposed to Single Patient, Hong Kong

Tze-wai Wong* , Chin-Kei Lee†, Wilson Tam*, Joseph Tak-fai Lau*, Tak-sun Yu*, Siu-Fai Lui‡, Paul K.S. Chan*, Yuguo Li§, Joseph S. Bresee¶, Joseph J.Y. Sung*, Umesh D. Parashar¶, and for the Outbreak Study Group

Author affiliations: *The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), People’s Republic of China; †National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; ‡Hospital Authority, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China; §The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China; ¶Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Figure 6

Figure 6. Dispersion of hypothetical aerosols that originated from the index patient’s bed in the ward. Three levels of normalized concentrations are shown (0.03, 0.015, and 0.05) because the source strength of the virus-laden aerosols is unknown.

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¹Members of the outbreak study group: Nelson Lee and Jean Kim, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Kitty Fung and Albert Ng, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong; Kazutoshi Nakashima, Tomi Sunagawa, Keiji Fukuda, Tracee Treadwell, and Udo Bucholz, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; M.K. Tham and Thomas Tsang, Hong Kong Department of Health, Hong Kong.

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