Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Epidemiologic Criteria
Travel
  • Includes transit in airports
  • Within ten days of the onset of symptoms to an area with current, recently documented or suspected community transmission of SARS, or
    • Areas with documented or suspected community transmission of SARS include mainland China and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China; Singapore; Taiwan; Toronto, Canada; and Hanoi, Vietnam.[6]
Close contact
  • Within ten days of onset of symptoms with a person known or suspected to have SARS infection[7]