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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS): The traveller's dilemma

Gboyegu A. Ogunbanjo
South African Family Practice | Vol 45, No 3 | a1981 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/safp.v45i3.1981 | ©
Submitted: 20 September 2011 | Published: 30 March 2003

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Gboyegu A. Ogunbanjo, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Medunsa, South Africa

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Abstract

The outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) also known as "atypical pneumonia" in Cuangdong Province, China in November 2002 and the subsequent spread to Hong Kong by mid-February 2003 highlights the importance of emerging diseases in clinical practice.

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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS); atypical pneumonia

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