Outlook

During the first epidemic of SARS, most countries had to deal with a small number of imported cases. When these cases were promptly detected, isolated, and managed according to strict procedures of infection control, further spread to hospital staff and family members either did not occur at all or resulted in a very small number of secondary infections (Chan-Yeung).

In countries with significant transmission of the SARS virus, the local outbreaks of Spring 2003 have been controlled; however, second out