Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Can SARS Return?

Screen all persons being hospitalized for CXR-confirmed pneumonia:
  1. In the last 10 days, have you traveled to mainland China, Hong Kong or Taiwan, or been in close contact with other ill persons who have?
  2. “Are you employed as a healthcare worker with direct patient contact?”
  3. “Do you have close contacts who have been told they have pneumonia?”[6][7]