Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Atypical Pneumonia, Coronavirus, Chief Public Health Officer Of Canada
14 Dec 2017
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Understand the ethical, practical, legal, and moral issues surrounding quarantine. Be able to describe how canada responded to the sars outbreak, what we learned, and apply principles learned in the last lecture to the issue of quarantine. Serious form of pneumonia caused by a coronavirus. Symptoms: fever, cough, difficulty breathing: vague symptoms o. Through close contact: direct contact with bodily fluids and respiratory secretions, not contagious until you start showing symptoms. In some instances it can take up to 10 days after contact before being contagious. Cant be diagnosed by symptoms alone: have to have early clinical signs, a fever and a chest x-ray that is consistent with sars, need to rule out other possibilities. Treatment: no vaccine or cure o. Ex. oxygen and fluids to recover more quickly. Nov 16, 2002: index patient became ill in guangdong province of china. Feb 2003: email list early warning system for emerging threats describes sars: described this phenomenon in asia o.
