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cord-307885-butuv3n1	Galvani, Alison P.	Emerging Infections: What Have We Learned from SARS?	2004-07-17		.txt	text/plain	1195	71	44	As is typical of an emerging disease, no vaccines or drugs to combat SARS existed, making quarantine, patient isolation, travel restrictions, and contact precautions the only means of limiting transmission. Previously, similar models had guided public health policy, for example, in halting an outbreak of hoof and mouth disease in the United Kingdom in 2001 (5, 6) . The case-fatality rate is a key determinant of the public health impact of an emerging disease and was high for SARS at approximately 15% (11) . The success with which WHO coordinated the global collaboration in containing SARS galvanized the World Health Assembly to grant WHO greater authority to verify outbreaks, conduct investigations of outbreak severity, and evaluate the adequacy of control measures. Transmission dynamics of the etiological agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Hong Kong: the impact of public health interventions Infectious diseases of humans: dynamics and control	./cache/cord-307885-butuv3n1.txt	./txt/cord-307885-butuv3n1.txt