Transmission of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome on Aircraft

This careful study is based on interviews of passengers and crew members on three flights that carried patients with the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Twenty-two persons became ill a mean of four days after one of the flights. The risk was highest among the passengers seated within three...

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Published in:	The New England journal of medicine Vol. 349; no. 25; pp. 2416 - 2422
Main Authors:	Olsen, Sonja J, Chang, Hsiao-Ling, Cheung, Terence Yung-Yan, Tang, Antony Fai-Yu, Fisk, Tamara L, Ooi, Steven Peng-Lim, Kuo, Hung-Wei, Jiang, Donald Dah-Shyong, Chen, Tzay-Jinn, Chen, Kow-Tong, Lando, Jim, Hsu, Kwo-Hsiung, Dowell, Scott F
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Boston, MA Massachusetts Medical Society 18-12-2003
Subjects:	Aged Aircraft Airlines Biological and medical sciences Confidence intervals Disease control Disease Transmission, Infectious Environmental Exposure Hong Kong Human viral diseases Humans Illnesses Infectious diseases Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Mortality Passengers Risk Factors SARS coronavirus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - transmission Travel Viral diseases Viral diseases of the respiratory system and ent viral diseases Hong Kong Hong Kong China Beijing China China Taiwan Human Lung disease Respiratory disease Severe acute respiratory syndrome Transmission Infection Airplane Viral disease Risk factor Passenger Transmission from man to man Aircraft Public health
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Summary:	This careful study is based on interviews of passengers and crew members on three flights that carried patients with the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Twenty-two persons became ill a mean of four days after one of the flights. The risk was highest among the passengers seated within three rows in front of the symptomatic index patient (relative risk, 3.1). After one flight, 22 persons became ill. The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is characterized by the acute onset of fever with cough, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, or some combination of these symptoms; the symptoms begin an average of four days after exposure to an infected person. As of September 26, 2003, 8098 cases of SARS and 774 deaths due to SARS (10 percent mortality) in more than 25 countries had been reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). 1 , 2 Although there have been anecdotal reports of transmission on aircraft, the risk, if any, to passengers has not been well documented. WHO and the Centers for . . .
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ISSN:	0028-4793 1533-4406
DOI:	10.1056/NEJMoa031349