Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Index Case, Atypical Pneumonia, Coronavirus

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Mcphail

Document Summary

Treatment no vaccine or cure supportive treatment like oxygen. The issue: 2003 global outbreak: nov 16, 2002: index patient became ill in guangdong province of china started in asian index patient - cause of outbreak. 12 other hotel guests including a canadian: she than becomes the canadian index case, canadian travels home to toronto. Transmitted it to a family member who went to a hospital and it lead to a hospital outbreak. The issue: toronto outbreak: march 2003, canadian index case dies of unrecognized sars transmitted to family member who caused a hospital outbreak. Two waves: wave 1: march - april 2003 started form canadian index case, when things started dying down they loosened protocol which lead to second wave, wave 2: april - july 2003, stats: 85% of sars cases were in on only city outside of asian that was a ected so signi cantly: who travel advisory you should only visit toronto if it was absolutely essential.