Warning about SARS

(Severe acute respiratory syndrome)

To members of Hiroshima University

SARS (Severe acute respiratory syndrome) seems to go around again!

If you fall under the following all，please contact the nearest hospital or Health Service Center (ext 6191 or 6192).

A person presenting after 1 November 2002

　　with history of:

- high fever (>38 degree Celsius)

AND

- cough or breathing difficulty

AND

one or more of the following exposures during

the 10 days prior to onset of symptoms:

- close contact* with a person who is a suspect or

probable case of SARS;

- history of travel, to an affected area #

- residing in an affected area #

#

China (Taiwan, )

Canada(Toronto), etc

# Affected area: an area in which local chain(s) of transmission of SARS is/are occurring as reported by the national public health authorities.

* Close contact: having cared for, lived with, or had direct contact with respiratory secretions or body fluids of a suspect or probable case of SARS.

Information from WHO (http://www.who.int/csr/sars/casedefinition/en/)

Information is updated every day. Please access the following URL (internet address).

http://www.mhlw.go.jp/topics/2003/03/tp0318-1.html

http://www.who.int/csr/sars/en/

http://idsc.nih.go.jp/others/sars/index.html