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cord-349821-5ykwwq75	Ippolito, G.	Biological weapons: Hospital preparedness to bioterrorism and other infectious disease emergencies	2006-09-09		.txt	text/plain	6497	257	35	The term 'highly infectious diseases' describes infections caused by pathogens that are transmissible from person to person, cause severe or life-threatening illness; present a serious hazard in healthcare settings and in the community; and require specific control measures, which may include management of cases in a highly secure isolation unit. In Canada, where SARS 'paralysed the Greater Toronto Area healthcare system for weeks' [27] , and the Toronto public health department investigated 2132 potential cases of SARS, identified over 23,000 contacts as requiring quarantine and logged more than 316,000 calls on its SARS hotline [28] , a national review commission identified systemic deficiencies in response capacity, including 'inadequacies in institutional outbreak management protocols, infection control and infectious disease surveillance', and found that these deficiencies resulted at least in part from failure to implement lessons learned from earlier public health emergencies [22] .	./cache/cord-349821-5ykwwq75.txt	./txt/cord-349821-5ykwwq75.txt